Extension offers streambank repair workshops. Learn how to protect and improve water quality by stabilizing stream banks.
The link for workshops in Carrboro November 1 and December 12 with Mitch Woodward.
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A Durham developer has agreed to pay fines and fund new land protections after years of muddy runoff polluted streams that feed into Falls Lake, Raleigh’s primary drinking water source.
The settlement, announced Monday by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) and Sound Rivers, ends a lawsuit against Clayton Properties Group, Inc., which conducts business in North Carolina as Mungo Homes. The lawsuit alleged that construction at the Sweetbrier subdivision in southeast Durham caused extreme sediment pollution in nearby creeks.
Durham is in the midst of a sediment pollution crisis. Dirty runoff from active construction sites across the city’s most developed corners are turning Durham’s creeks orange with mud, harming aquatic habitat, and polluting the Falls Lake drinking water supply downstream. Thankfully, you can help us stop the pollution by getting involved in Sound Rivers Muddy Water Watch program!
Please consider joining Sound Rivers’ Riverkeeper team for a Muddy Water Watch training on December 10th from 6-7:30pm at Durham’s People’s Solidarity Hub (1805 Chapel Hill Road).
Sound Rivers’ Muddy Water Watch training will offer community members information on the construction-sediment crisis in Durham and resources on how to get involved in monitoring the problem. Sound Rivers Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop, Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Katey Zimmerman and Water Quality Specialist Taylor Register will join interested community members to share facts and stories about their work monitoring sediment pollution and advocating for changes to citywide construction policy. Participants will walk away with an understanding of how to spot sediment violations on construction sites, what to do if violations are observed, and how to play a role in a growing movement to address Durham’s construction sediment crisis.