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10863
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Innovative stormwater management practices, backed up by new state legislation, are improving water quality in North Carolina's coastal counties. Wilmington, New Hanover, and Brunswick Counties are areas where improvement is occurring.
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Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Winter 2009, p12-17, il Periodical Website
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19360
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The best just got better in North Carolina. Recently 200,000 acres of coastal rivers and lakes in the state have been designated as \"outstanding resource waters.\" Seven bodies of water from Alligator River to Masonboro Sound provide extra protections against degradation and promote the maintenance of water quality.
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Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. 16 Issue 10, Nov/Dec 1989, p2-3, map, f Periodical Website
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34157
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The North Carolina Division of Environmental Management has set dates for public hearings on recommendations to designate ten coastal areas as “outstanding resource waters.” This classification is for surface waters having unique and special attributes together with excellent water quality.
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19317
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It was like D-Day in coastal North Carolina. The state's ocean waters were tainted with tiny organisms of a subtropical species of red tide dinoflagellate that turns the water red. It leaves beachcombers coughing, fish suffocating, and shellfishermen out of work. The organisms have neurotoxins that affect the nervous systems of other organisms. Although it is safe to eat the fish, crabs, and shrimp that lie in red tides because it does not taint their flesh, oysters, clams, and scallops are another story.
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33298
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As the House and Senate work to reauthorize the Clean Water Act, one of the amendments they will be considering is directed at maintaining water quality in estuaries. The Water Quality Renewal Act of 1985, contains an amendment put forth by North Carolina Representative Walter B. Jones to establish a program for maintaining estuarine water quality. The amendment gives special consideration to Albemarle Sound and Pamlico Bay in selecting estuaries of national significance.
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33186
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Residents of coastal North Carolina face multiple issues regarding water resources. They must balance interests that include farming, fishing, forestry, peat mining, and development, while guarding their ground and surface waters. A forum for public discussion of these water quality issues is being provided by the Coastal Resources Advisory Council’s Coastal Roundtable Series.
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15877
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Coastal North Carolina has about 2.3 million acres of marsh, wetlands, creeks, rivers, and sounds, making up the largest estuarine system on the Atlantic coast. Productivity of fish and shellfish breeding in this system depends upon an influx of nutrients and fresh water from upland areas. The health of this estuarine system is a good indicator of how well water resources are being protected in North Carolina. Currently, the large agricultural interests disagree with concerned commercial fishermen saying fresh-water fishing grounds are being polluted with farm chemicals.
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Carolina Planning (NoCar HT 393 N8 C29x), Vol. 9 Issue 2, Winter 1983, p27-29, il
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