by admin | Jun 6, 2016 | Conservation, Riparian buffers
From the NC State Sierra Club….. Dear Environmentalist, Years of progress — and yes, leadership– in cleaning up our state’s rivers is on the chopping block. Your help is urgently needed today. Last week, the NC Senate unveiled and virtually...
by admin | May 3, 2016 | Bolin Creek, Bolin Creek paving controversy, Bolin Creek Watershed
Many knew about Carrboro’s 1B Multi-Use route (from Claremont to Homestead Road and then east to Chapel Hill High School. What almost no on knew until a few weeks ago was that the route would intersect with the High School’s Cross Country Course three...
by admin | Apr 29, 2016 | Jordan Lake, Solar Bees
Last week the North Carolina Division of Environmental Quality Report released a report on the efficiency of the solar bees in Jordan Lake. Ir was removed from the state website shortly after it was posted. What we learn is that here is no solution other than to...
by admin | Apr 7, 2016 | Bolin Creek Watershed, Bolin Forest
The blog post from Maria de Bruyn; Posted on April 4, 2016 This past Saturday morning, we awoke to water streaming from the heavens in quite a heavy downpour. A local conservation group, Friends of Bolin Creek, had scheduled a wildflower walk to see some of our...
by admin | Mar 9, 2016 | Bolin Creek, Bolin Creek Watershed, Coal Ash Dump, Conservation
Chapel Hill Police station, 828 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill In May 2014, the Town of Chapel Hill informed the public that a coal ash landfill was found to be located on the site of the Chapel Hill Police Building. For more than a decade in the 1960s and...
