Swim Guide came to an abrupt end with the arrival of Tropical Storm Idalia this week. The recreational water-quality testing program runs from Memorial to Labor Day each year, but potentially unsafe conditions on Thursday prompted environmental nonprofit Sound Rivers to cut […]
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Only one site on the lower Neuse failed to meet recreational water-quality standards this week: Slocum Creek in Havelock. The waterway has failed the Swim Guide test 11 out of 13 times since Memorial Day, leading to an investigation into the source
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Slocum Creek in Havelock continues to be plagued by water-quality problems. For an eighth week running, water sampled from the site has failed to meet state and federal recreational water-quality standards. All other Lower Neuse sites tested weekly for the Swim Guide
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Five sites on the Lower Neuse failed to meet recreational water-quality standards this week, and two of them failed spectacularly. Pierce Creek and Midyette Street had extremely high levels of the fecal bacteria enterococci at 24,196.6 MPN/mL (most probable number per 100
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Six recreational sites on local waterways failed the Swim Guide test this week: Poole Road canoe launch, Falls of the Neuse canoe launch, Clayton Riverwalk, Smithfield Town Commons, and Club House Beach and Pavilion Beach at Lake Royale. “We can blame the
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After last weekend’s rain, two sampled sites in the Neuse watershed failed to meet recreational water-quality standards this week: River Bend kayak launch on the Trent River and Slocum Creek boating access in Havelock. “The amount of time between the heavy rain
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Sound Rivers’ Neuse and Pamlico-Tar Riverkeepers work with interns and volunteers to monitor water quality sites in the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico watersheds. During peak swim season, our sites are sampled weekly from late May through the end of August. Sites are monitored
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Celebrating community leadership and progress for clean water and river health, American Rivers today named the Neuse River the “River of the Year” for 2022. “The River of the Year honor celebrates outstanding progress toward a cleaner, healthier Neuse River that is
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Happy Labor Day! These are our last Swim Guide results of the season! We’d like to thank our many volunteers across the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico watersheds who have diligently delivered samples to us, all summer long. We could do it without you
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Oops! We had an error! Our brackish sites on the Pamlico River ran afoul of an error during processing. We had to exclude results for Cypress Landing, Dinah’s Landing at Goose Creek, Blounts Bay, Cotton Patch Landing on Blounts Creek, Pamlico Plantation
Sound Rivers Swim Guide — August 26, 2022 Read More »