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34347
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation (DOT) is responsible for most of the activities undertaken to compensate for impacts to wetlands and streams. To help improve these efforts, the new Ecosystem Enhancement Program will absorb the North Carolina Wetlands Restoration Program and certain mitigation-related operations within the DOT. The new program aims to identify impacts to wetlands and streams very early in the roadway planning process.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 340, Mar/Apr 2003,
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34307
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The General Assembly created the North Carolina Wetlands Restoration Program in 1996 to repair degraded wetland areas and create new areas to compensate for losses. About two-thirds of North Carolina’s remaining wetlands and associated floodplains and riparian areas are privately owned. For that reason, private landowners will largely determine the success of the wetland restoration program.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 322, Mar/Apr 2000,
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29525
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Beavers, nature's architects, sculpt the landscape to fit their needs. Now, North Carolina Sea Grant researchers are examining the beavers' plans to help restore the state's wetlands.
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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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34330
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In June, the National Research Council said that the Clean Water Act Section 404 program that allows developers to fill in wetlands in exchange for restoring or creating others is not meeting the goal of “no net loss” in function of wetlands. The Council made recommendations to improve the Section 404 compensatory mitigation program. In North Carolina, the Wetlands Restoration Program is doing a watershed assessment to determine where it would be most beneficial to do mitigation as suggested by the Council.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 331, Sept/Oct 2001,
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34345
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) alters more wetlands and riparian areas and undertakes more compensatory mitigation than any other single entity in the state. In March 2002, the second of two reports on evaluation of mitigation sites and the mitigation program was published. The East Carolina University researchers who conducted the evaluation discussed significant weaknesses in NCDOT’s mitigation program and offered recommendations for restoration and improvement.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 339, Jan/Feb 2003,
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34246
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The North Carolina Environmental Management Commission adopted legislative proposals and a “green” budget, which includes funding for efforts to restore water quality in the Neuse River. The goal is to reduce and hold the line on nitrogen loading in a river basin where a rapid increase in human and animal populations shows no signs of abating. Recommendations include restoration of riparian buffers and wetlands.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 299, May/June 1996,
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