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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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34326
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The North Carolina Drought Monitoring Council report for March 5, 2001 said that extreme drought conditions persist over the western region of North Carolina and that numerous water systems are still dealing with below normal water supplies. The council said that only limited improvements in water supply conditions may occur over the next several months and that water systems whose reservoirs do not refill by April are advised to plan for limited water supplies during the summer months.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 328, Mar/Apr 2001,
p14, il
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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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34328
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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.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 329, May/June 2001,
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34329
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have recently begun to study vegetation management in forested filter zones to find the combination of cover types best suited to remove or cause the removal of sediments and nutrients. This research extends their work in the Tar-Pamlico Basin, which demonstrated the superiority of dense regrowth following a clear cut over the mature mixed pine-hardwood forest. Detention of sediments was improved while detention of nutrients was dramatically improved.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 330, July/Aug 2001,
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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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34331
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Much of groundwater contamination is contamination of aquifer soils by dense compounds that are not soluble in water. Among the nation’s leading scientists focusing on contaminant remediation are those in the Center for Multiphase Research in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. They have a strategy for cleaning up dense contaminants that involves floating pools by increasing the density of the underlying groundwater.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 331, Sept/Oct 2001,
p8-9
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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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34333
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A pending change in Natural Resources Conservation Service standards for designing nutrient management plans for animal waste operations could force some animal producers in North Carolina to look for additional land on which to apply wastes. The unfavorable nitrogen-to-phosphorus ratio in manures has often resulted in an overapplication of phosphorus, which can further dissolve in soil water and seep into groundwater. North Carolina is identifying soil sites with high potential for phosphorus loss.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 332, Nov/Dec 2001,
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34334
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Following a three-year effort to improve coastal land-use planning, the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission adopted changes to Coastal Area Management Act (CAMA) land-use planning guidelines in October. CAMA requires the twenty coastal counties to prepare land-use plans, but planning is optional for municipalities in those counties. The new guidelines offer three levels of plans that give local governments flexibility to meet local needs, while seeking to improve protection of coastal water quality.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 332, Nov/Dec 2001,
p7
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34335
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At a meeting of the North Carolina Drought Monitoring Council on November 8, representatives said that many of North Carolina’s major cities are experiencing “top ten” dry conditions with rainfall deficits exceeded only by the drought of 1986. Precipitation across the state has been from 10-25 inches below normal for the last twenty-four months.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 332, Nov/Dec 2001,
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34336
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In May, the North Carolina General Assembly will consider the state’s growing solid waste problem. According to the 2000-2001 North Carolina Solid Waste Management Annual Report, North Carolina has fallen far short of the goal set in 1991 of reducing by forty-percent the volume of solid waste disposed by 2001. This article discusses short- and long-term approaches to solid waste disposal and management in the state, including local government recycling efforts.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 333, Jan/Feb 2002,
p1-4
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34337
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On December 11, 2001, the North Carolina Commission for Health Services approved a temporary rule reducing the Maximum Contaminant Level for arsenic in drinking water to the pending federal standard of ten parts-per-billion effective January 1, 2002. When the new rule goes into effect, public community and non-transient non-community drinking water systems that exceed the standard will be required to provide public notice of the exceedance.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 333, Jan/Feb 2002,
p6
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34338
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During the period of July 2000 to June 2001, the City of Raleigh reported sixty-six sewer line blockages that resulted in sewage spills of one-thousand gallons or more. More than half of these blockages were caused by the buildup of fats, oils, and greases (FOG) in the sewer line. Although managers have incentive to act in the form of new requirements under the State’s Clean Water Act of 1999, they are having difficulty designing programs that are successful at preventing grease blockages.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 335, May/June 2002,
p1-6
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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,
p7
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