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27749
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The third part in a three-part series about Aqua North Carolina. Explored is the Acquisitions Incentive Account (AIA) mechanism which allows Aqua NC to purchase troubled water systems. This rarely used mechanism has seen Aqua NC raise its rates for customers state-wide in NC even if they purchase a troubled water system and customers are not in that system. The AIA is seen as a special deal by critics and the rate increases have outraged citizens using the private utilities system.
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7448
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Water and sewer revenues keep the state's utilities in business by covering the costs of daily expenses and providing funds for long-term system planning. Hughes examines fundamental principles behind water and sewer revenues and looks at high-priority decisions that water and sewer boards face. For example, in 2002, the approximately 500 government-owned water and sewer enterprises collected from their customers over $1.4 billion. Combined company assets were about $7.8 billion. However, over the next twenty years North Carolina will need over $11 billion in investments to meets infrastructure needs for water and sewer.
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The summer of 2005 will mark the tenth anniversary of massive algae blooms and fish kills on the lower Neuse River caused by excessive nitrogen and phosphate loading in the Neuse estuary. Bill Holman, executive director of the North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund, feels this was one instance where policymakers and scientists were at odds. He cites two examples of proactive, progressive management of water quality in the state's rapidly growing and highly urbanized Piedmont region--the Mountain Island Lake initiative and the Catawba River Mountain Island Lake. The latter contains the largest drinking water supply in North Carolina.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 351, Mar/Apr 2005,
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5485
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North Carolina's population is rising and so is the demand for water. Some areas are maxing out their water supplies, while the state copes with a continuing drought. Deen examines a number of state communities to learn how they are dealing with this declining resource.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 66 Issue 3, Mar 2002,
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25247
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The Pamlico-Tar River Foundation provides an update on water-supply discussions that will affect several counties.
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4850
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A good water supply is important to the growth and well-being of North Carolina. In a fifteen county area in the central coastal plain, which includes the fast-growing counties of Pitt, Lenoir, Craven and Onslow, the water supply is becoming critical. Smith describes ways a number of communities are dealing with the water supply issue and what plans the state has.
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4049
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Believing it is better to spend a little money now than a great deal later, the General Assembly created the Clean Water Trust Management Fund in 1996. It is independently run and funded yearly; it grants monies to local governments and nonprofit conservation groups that seek to protect the state's water resources. To date, $92.5 million has been given out. A list of projects funded is included.
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26148
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Chapel Hill and Carrboro can use nine million gallons of water a day. Pumping that much water is a big and expensive job. Using dynamic programming, graduate student Amy Buege figured out an efficient water pumping schedule that maintains water quality standards.
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The Environmental Management Commission voted to grant Piedmont Triad Regional Water Authority the eminent domain and water transfer authorities it needs to proceed with the 48-million-gallons-per-day Randleman Lake regional water supply project.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 273, Jan/Feb 1992,
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The first phase of research on the economic implications of the proposed water supply watershed protection regulations is underway.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 273, Jan/Feb 1992,
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425
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The zebra mussel from Europe is poised to threaten water supplies throughout the United States, including the waters of North Carolina.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 56 Issue 6, June 1992,
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771
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North Carolina's Water Supply Watershed Classification and Protection Act was passed to protect county and municipality water supplies from increasing pollution and degradation.
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518
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Interbasin transfers, or diversions, have had a way of raising the hackles of legislators, officials, and citizens. The author attempts to clarify relevant transfer laws in an effort to reduce misunderstanding and confrontation.
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27520
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The Triangle area water supply has contaminants in it and some are appearing in quantities slightly larger than considered safe. Each city’s water supply is examined according to chemists at each city and their lab tests on file at the NC Division of Health Sciences. Durham, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, and Pittsboro and their results are explained.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 7 Issue 9, April 27-May 3 1989,
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27521
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This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on water pollution in the Triangle area. The sources of the Triangle’s water pollution are examined. The majority of pollution is from toxins that run off of city streets caused by citizens. Farmers account for 17 percent of the problem and industry and faulty sewage treatment facilities account for 16 percent. The governments role in regulation and what can be done is also examined.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 7 Issue 10, May 4-10 1989,
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