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34206
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The North Carolina Environmental Management Commission rejected a recommendation to hold public hearings on changing the state’s water quality standard for dioxin, a by-product of chlorine bleaching linked to cancer and reproductive abnormalities. Instead, the commission voted in July to return the dioxin issue to the Water Quality Committee for additional study.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 276, July/Aug 1992,
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34229
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The North Carolina Environmental Management Commission’s Water Quality Committee developed a proposal for a new supplemental stream classification. The proposal is considered as the first step in an approach to improve the status of impaired coastal waters. A conceptual model was developed in response to pollution problems in the South River which have led to closure of almost all the river to shellfishing.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 288, July/Aug 1994,
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34233
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The North Carolina Division of Environmental Health has submitted to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources an expanded budget request of more than two-million-dollars to provide for improved enforcement of the state’s safe drinking water program. The request was spurred by United States Environmental Protection Agency concerns about the level of resources devoted to enforcing Safe Drinking Water Act regulations.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 290, Nov/Dec 1994,
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34234
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s new “Information Collection Rule” is likely to mean at least two-million-dollars in monitoring, laboratory and reporting costs and pilot programs for North Carolina’s large water utilities over the next few years. The new rule convened in 1992 to address limits on disinfection by-products, which are suspected in drinking water, and create new requirements for removing microbial contaminants from poor-quality surface waters.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 290, Nov/Dec 1994,
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34265
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The newly enacted Clean Water Responsibility and Environmentally Sound Policy Act (H.B. 515) includes a section concerning the role of stakeholders in the approval of water quality models. This requires that nutrient limits be substantiated by the application of a calibrated water quality model developed with participation of stakeholders. The new role for stakeholders is consistent with the recent increased public involvement in environmental assessment and decision-making.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 308, Nov/Dec 1997,
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34271
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North Carolina’s Department of Transportation (DOT) obtained a stormwater permit to implement a statewide program to reduce the effects of highway runoff on surface waters. The permit was issued by the Division of Water Quality and requires the DOT to meet requirements for preventing water pollution.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 313, Sept/Oct 1998,
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34293
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In 1998, North Carolina’s Department of Transportation (DOT) became the first to receive a state-issued statewide stormwater permit. Under the mandate of this permit, a research program was launched to provide needed information on pollutant loading from highway runoff on surface waters. DOT expects that within two years, it will have a database that will allow characterization of runoff from various kinds of highways across the state.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 317, May/June 1999,
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34295
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Scientists believe that issues of limited water supply, sediment pollution, and excessive nitrogen are emerging as recurrent problems. The accepted nutrient application practices across the Coastal Plain may be contributing to unacceptably high nutrient concentrations throughout shallow aquifers. They advise plans to define sustainable rates of nutrient application to the land.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 318, July/Aug 1999,
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34303
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The North Carolina Environmental Management Commission adopted a rule requiring the preservation of vegetated buffer areas along intermittent and perennial streams, lakes, ponds and estuarine waters throughout the Tar-Pamlico River Basin. The Commission also approved the Catawba River Basinwide Water Quality Plan and discussed a schedule for adopting riparian buffer requirements for that basin.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 321, Jan/Feb 2000,
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34305
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North Carolina’s effort to address the devastation resulting from Hurricane Floyd has focused on human health, social needs, and economic recovery. As state planners prepare for long-term response to hurricanes, consideration is being given to stormwater runoff, water quality, watershed development, and urbanization.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 322, Mar/Apr 2000,
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34325
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In the early 1970s, the Chowan River Estuary and other waterbodies in North Carolina experienced algae blooms that interfered with industrial water supply, fishing and recreational use. Extensive research led the North Carolina Division of Water Quality to develop standards for chlorophyll-a, which is an indicator of algal biomass and water quality. This article discusses how these water quality standards were developed.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 328, Mar/Apr 2001,
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34327
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The Environmental Protection Agency’s Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Program is under review for changes to the program and water quality standards. In North Carolina, limited resources and multiple objectives hamper the surface water quality monitoring program, but suggest that a rigorous re-evaluation of sample site selection and monitoring frequency could yield some gains. This article discusses how the Neuse River illustrates certain good and bad features of the current TMDL program, and what could be improved.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 329, May/June 2001,
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34332
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Effective water quality management is built on a foundation of water quality standards that are expressed in a manner that makes compliance assessment clear and unambiguous. Most surface water quality standards in North Carolina are based on a chemical criterion value and used to determine if a waterbody is compliant. This article gives an overview of the state’s standards and total maximum daily load (TMDL) program.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 332, Nov/Dec 2001,
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34339
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The North Carolina Environmental Management Commission is struggling to design a program that will not involve direct mandate to counties but will still comply with requirements of the federal NPDES Stormwater Phase II program. In North Carolina, drainage systems along roadways in unincorporated areas are owned by the Department of Transportation. This type of ownership does not align with the language mandated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and consequently, has brought a legal challenge to implementing stormwater management programs.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 335, May/June 2002,
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34340
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Mark Brinson is an East Carolina University ecology professor and wetlands expert, and chair of the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Riparian Zone Functioning and Strategies for Management. According to Brinson, achieving the goals of the Clean Water Act and other objectives requires the restoration of riparian functions along waterbodies. Buffer rules adopted by the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission for the Neuse, Tar-Pamlico, and Catawba River basins and restoration practices can help maintain riparian zones.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 335, May/June 2002,
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