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North Carolina Land and Water Fund (NCLWF) was created by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1996 as the 'Clean Water Management Trust Fund'. [1] The fund is an independent non-regulatory agency housed in the Division of Land and Water Stewardship in the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
OWASA has 343 miles of water mains and 294 miles of sewers. Its water is treated at the Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant. [2] The organization was founded in 1977, [2] to plan and manage Orange County's water supply after the county had experienced years of recurring droughts. [3] OWASA has a rolling 5-year capital improvement plan for ...
In 1989, the river was designated as a "Natural and Scenic River" by the North Carolina General Assembly. In addition, it is the only blackwater river in North Carolina to be designated as a National Wild and Scenic River by the Department of the Interior. In 2010, the Lumber River was voted one of North Carolina’s Ten Natural Wonders, the ...
More than half of the people served by Asheville’s Water Resources Department remain without access to water as of Oct. 13, more than two weeks after devastating flooding in the region.
Meanwhile, across all of the Western North Carolina region, including rural areas where people rely on well water but don’t have power to the pumps that would deliver it, residents persist in a ...
Emergency operations in North Carolina flow through the county, Manheimer said. Requests for aid and resources go through the state's emergency management system and are initiated by the county.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) is an agency of the government of North Carolina that focuses on the preservation and protection of natural resources and public health. The department is headed by the Secretary of Environmental Quality, who is appointed by the Governor of North Carolina and is a member of the ...
Bodies of water of North Carolina (11 C, 3 P) D. Dams in North Carolina (1 C, 24 P) F. Fountains in North Carolina (1 P) R. Reservoirs in North Carolina (57 P) S.