Record #:

34256

Author(s):

Not Given

Abstract:

The North Carolina Division of Water Resources is reassessing its regulation of groundwater and surface water withdrawals in Capacity Use Area #1, a multicounty area centered around Beaufort County. The Division is conducting an aquifer framework analysis and modeling groundwater flow in the Castle Hayne Aquifer as a basis for reviewing future groundwater withdrawal permit applications and assessing whether continued regulation of withdrawals in the area is necessary.

Source:

Water Resources Research Institute News (NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 303, Jan/Feb 1997, p9, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Aquifers; Water resources development; Water supply; Groundwater--North Carolina

Record #:

34324

Author(s):

Not Given

Abstract:

On January 22, 2001, the United States Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule reducing the drinking water standard for arsenic. However, on January 24, an executive memorandum was issued directing executive departments and agencies to hold up any proposed or newly promulgated rules until an appointee of the new administration could review them. While groups are challenging the new arsenic rule, North Carolina is moving forward with a proposal to change the state’s groundwater standard for arsenic in private drinking water wells.

Source:

Water Resources Research Institute News (NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 328, Mar/Apr 2001, p6 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Water--Standards; Drinking water--Contamination; Groundwater--North Carolina

Record #:

34328

Author(s):

Not Given

Abstract:

The North Carolina General Assembly funded a series of studies in response to concerns of residents of Brunswick and Columbus counties about sedimentation, poor water quality, and biological impairment in the Waccamaw River. The studies found indication of high diversity ecosystems, and a major flow of groundwater from the underlying Pee Dee aquifer. The aquifer system represents an economically important source of groundwater throughout the North Carolina Coastal Plain.

Source:

Water Resources Research Institute News (NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 329, May/June 2001, p2-3, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Groundwater--North Carolina; Water resources development--Research; Aquifers

Record #:

34344

Author(s):

Not Given

Abstract:

The North Carolina Environmental Management Commission directed the Division of Water Resources to conduct a Capacity Use Investigation of the area in and around Bladen County, and to provide a report and recommendations. Dewatering of the Upper Cape Fear Aquifer underlying the area appears to be imminent, and without declaring a Capacity Use Area, the Commission has no authority to limit groundwater withdrawals from the aquifer.

Source:

Water Resources Research Institute News (NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 339, Jan/Feb 2003, p1-3 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Aquifers; Groundwater--North Carolina; Water supply