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Nationwide PFAS Study finds no toxic “forever chemicals” in surface waters around Maysville Hogs in Hurricane Alley Highlights from the NCMDS 2022 Rust Tide in New River New Coastal Waterkeeper Announced

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Nationwide PFAS Study finds no toxic “forever chemicals” in surface waters around Maysville

Nov 3, 2022 Lisa Rider

Hogs in Hurricane Alley

Oct 18, 2022 Lisa Rider

Highlights from the NCMDS 2022

Oct 18, 2022 Lisa Rider

Actions News Updates

Rust Tide in New River

Oct 18, 2022 Lisa Rider

New Coastal Waterkeeper Announced

Sep 13, 2022 Lisa Rider

CCRW serves a total area of 320 miles of rivers and streams, 140,104 acres of estuaries, and 129 miles of coastline.

Learn more about this exciting new project.

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CCRW is an advocacy organization dedicated to protecting and enhancing the waters of the Crystal Coast, White Oak River, and New River.

Are you reading "Wastelands" by Corban Addison? CC

Are you reading "Wastelands" by Corban Addison?
CCRW is hosting 2 book signing events in Morehead City on 1/12/23 and in Jacksonville on 1/13/23. The events will give you the opportunity to get your book signed by the author, an inside look into the writing, and a chance to ask CCRW staff questions about factory farming in NC.

More information can be found on our website and you can RSVP through the event on facebook (see link in bio). See you there!

#wastelands #booksigning #waterquality #factoryfarming #cafo

Happy Wetland Wednesday! This week we are highlig

Happy Wetland Wednesday!
This week we are highlighting one of CCRW’s service areas: Onslow County.
Onslow has a total of 994.7 miles of Estuarine shoreline. This includes 83 miles of swamp forest and 763 miles of marsh!

Estuarine shorelines are found along the coast’s broad network of brackish sounds, marshes, rivers and creeks. Estuaries are a unique and important part of coastal life and have vegetation that are critical for filtering runoff containing pollutants.

#wetland #coastalnc #waterquality #WetlandWednesday

“North Carolina’s factory farms are everywhere

“North Carolina’s factory farms are everywhere – even floodplains and other flood-prone areas.

Check out the newly published map -
Click on each point to see location-specific attributes for swine and poultry concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in North Carolina.

The pop-up box for each location provides these attributes: whether the operation houses poultry or swine, the county the operation is located in, the estimated number of animals produced in the facility, the estimated amount of manure produced by each operation and if the facility is located within the 500-year or 100-year floodplain, or within 100 feet of the 500 or 100-year floodplain.

Swine locations show data from permitted facilities on file with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. Poultry facility locations were originally derived from high-resolution satellite data and aerial photography by EWG and the Waterkeeper Alliance. Poultry facility locations were updated by EWG in 2022 using 2020 U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agriculture Imagery Program imagery.

The associated analysis has more information about CAFOs in floodplains in North Carolina, and EWG’s update to the methodology for locating poultry CAFOs in the state. The main findings:

North Carolina is overrun with 7,352 swine and poultry CAFOs that produce vast quantities of manure.
Of these operations, 156 are in or just outside floodplains – but more facilities are probably at a higher risk of flooding.
As the climate emergency intensifies, flooding from severe storms is more likely to flood factory farms, threatening human health and the environment.” - Click the link in our bio to access more information and the new CAFO map.

#coastalnc #waterquality #waterkeeper #workingforthewater #protectwhatyoulove #water #nc #coastalplanning #cama #coastalmanagement #coastalresilience #coastalcommunities #coastalcarolinariverwatch #crystalcoast #WaterQuality #cleanwateract #fishable #cleanwateract50 #swimmable #drinkable #rivers #riverkeepers #waterqualitymonitoring #protectingqualityofwaterandqualityoflife #coastalliving

Stay tuned right here for a new interactive social

Stay tuned right here for a new interactive social series #seashoresundays from Coastal Carolina Riverwatch coming soon.

Each month, you will learn about our NC seashores and what can be done to protect the quality of water and life among these areas.

#coastalnc #waterquality #waterkeeper #workingforthewater #protectwhatyoulove #water #nc #coastalplanning #cama #coastalmanagement #coastalresilience #coastalcommunities #coastalcarolinariverwatch #crystalcoast #WaterQuality #cleanwateract #fishable #cleanwateract50 #swimmable #drinkable #rivers #riverkeepers #waterqualitymonitoring #protectingqualityofwaterandqualityoflife #coastalliving #ncoysters #seashore #ncseashore #seashoresunday @waterkeeperalliance @waterkeepersnc @ourstatemag

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Actions News Updates

Nationwide PFAS Study finds no toxic “forever chemicals” in surface waters around Maysville

Nov 3, 2022 Lisa Rider

Hogs in Hurricane Alley

Oct 18, 2022 Lisa Rider

Highlights from the NCMDS 2022

Oct 18, 2022 Lisa Rider

Actions News Updates

Rust Tide in New River

Oct 18, 2022 Lisa Rider