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Havelock SSOs still on Sound Rivers’ radar
A history of sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) in Havelock has led Sound Rivers’ Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha…
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Investigation: Poole Road
Last week, our Swim Guide results turned up off-the-chart E. coli results at the Poole Road site in Knightdale. When Sound Rivers…
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We’re looking for Falls Lake, Lower Neuse Swim Guide volunteers!
We’ve got a few spots left to fill in our Swim Guide volunteer roster! Swim Guide is still going strong in its fifth…
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Cooper proposes $18 million for swine buyout program
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposed…
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Riverkeeper Spotlight: County board says no to proposed subdivision near open hog lagoon
A aerial view shows where the new development was proposed, uphill from the hog-waste lagoon in the…
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Sound Rivers welcomes 2022 summer interns
We’re giving a warm welcome to this summer’s water-quality interns — Maddie, Megan and Maia — who arrived this week and dove right in to Sound Rivers’ Swim Guide…
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We’re Seeking Swim Guide Volunteers!
We’re in the fifth year of Swim Guide, our weekly recreational water-quality testing program that lets everyone know where it’s safe to…
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Memorial clean-up a resounding success
The Tar River in Oxford was saved from a dumpster-full of trash, thanks to the efforts of volunteers and organizers of…
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Swim Guide Sampling for Volunteers
Sound Rivers Environmental Projects Director Clay Barber walks you through Swim Guide sampling from start to finish in this short video! Want to volunteer to sample? Email Clay at…
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RIVERKEEPER SPOTLIGHT: Avian Flu
Mounds of what appears to composting could be seen at one poultry facility struck by avian flu in the Lower…
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Microplastics and the purpose of Trash Trouts
Sound Rivers has embarked on a two-year-long microplastics monitoring project, part of a statewide initiative to understand what happens to plastics when they get into our waterways — how…
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VIDEO ANIMATION: An introduction to biogas
It’s not too late to let North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality know that we need more protections for our waterways and our communities. Watch the animation below for…
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Riverkeepers speak out at biogas permit public hearing
Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell and Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop traveled to Kenansville this week to speak out about biogas at a North…
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SPOTLIGHT: Avian flu and the poultry industry’s lack of transparency
The poultry industry is growing and largely unregulated, which makes it nearly impossible to understand the environmental impact it’s having on our waterways and communities. This is…
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ACTION ALERT: Biogas draft permit needs to protect people, environment
The biogas plans proposed in North Carolina do not fix the existing waste management problems and will make them worse by cementing in place an outdated, harmful system. It’s…
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