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Tag Archives: water quality
  • Havelock SSOs still on Sound Rivers’ radar

    Posted by Heather Deck on June 23, 2022

    A history of sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) in Havelock has led Sound Rivers’ Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha…


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  • Investigation: Poole Road

    Posted by Heather Deck on June 16, 2022

    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!

    Posted by Heather Deck on May 26, 2022

    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

    Posted by Heather Deck on May 26, 2022

    North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposed…


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  • Riverkeeper Spotlight: County board says no to proposed subdivision near open hog lagoon

    Posted by Heather Deck on May 19, 2022

    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

    Posted by Heather Deck on May 19, 2022

    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!

    Posted by Heather Deck on May 19, 2022

    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

    Posted by Heather Deck on May 5, 2022

    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

    Posted by Heather Deck on April 19, 2022

    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

    Posted by Heather Deck on April 14, 2022

    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

    Posted by Heather Deck on April 14, 2022

    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

    Posted by Heather Deck on April 14, 2022

    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

    Posted by Heather Deck on April 7, 2022

    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

    Posted by Heather Deck on April 7, 2022

    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

    Posted by Heather Deck on March 24, 2022

    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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