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In 2022, DEQ found 42 drinking water utilities serving at least 2.7 million people in North Carolina whose treated water contains PFOA or PFOS concentrations above the four parts per trillion ...
Volunteers Melissa McElwee and Tisa Lewis fill a cooler of water for a family without running water in the wake of Hurricane Helene, at the Ingles store on NC 9 on Tuesday, October 8, 2024 in ...
North Carolina’s drinking water has the third-highest concentration of 1,4-dioxane in the nation, with the Cape Fear River basin particularly impacted.
Harrisburg is located in southwestern Cabarrus County. It is bordered to the north by Concord and to the west by Charlotte in Mecklenburg County.. North Carolina Highway 49 passes through the center of Harrisburg, leading northeast 57 miles (92 km) to Asheboro and southwest 13 miles (21 km) to the center of Charlotte.
The Rocky River is a 95-mile-long (153 km) [5] river in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. It begins in Iredell County near Mooresville and flows south into Cabarrus County, where it is the principal waterway in the county. The river continues southeastward to form the line between Stanly, Union, and Anson counties.
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.
It also received $16.5 million for the project in 2022 from the state of North Carolina. Earlier this year, the water level was lowered in the lake to replace key infrastructure, according to the ...
Jacksonville's government replaced its sewage plant and consulted with scientists from North Carolina State University on ways to remediate the river's water quality. As a result, the city launched an oyster reef restoration project with the hopes that the added oysters would filter out pollutants in the water and attract other wildlife, such ...