by admin | Jan 17, 2015 | Bolin Creek Watershed, Jordan Lake
A group of residents of Meadowmont Village gathered at the Little Creek Trailhead on January 15 to begin participation in Clean Jordan Lake’s Adopt-A-Feeder Stream Program. Bolin Creek and Booker Creek join together in Chapel Hill to form Little Creek that flows...
by admin | May 23, 2014 | Bolin Creek Watershed, Coal Ash Dump and Bolin Creek, Conservation, Jordan Lake
Coal Ash Letter Dear Mayor Kleinschmidt and Town Council members: Friends of Bolin Creek are writing to urge you to clean up the large coal ash dump in the center of Chapel Hill. It would be a grave mistake to follow the lead of the N.C. Department of Environment and...
by admin | Jul 28, 2013 | Bolin Creek Watershed, Bolin Forest, Greenways see damage from floods
Carrboro has begun to implement a Greenways Plan. To understand what the term “Greenway” means read more here. The first section to be paved is only months old. It begins opposite Estes Apartments on Estes Drive Extension. See #1 on this Map to orient...
by admin | Feb 17, 2013 | Bolin Creek, Bolin Creek Watershed, Bolin Creek Wildlife, Claremont South
URGENT: BOLIN CREEK We are asking you to take action by contacting the Town of Carrboro’s elected representatives if you share our concern about Claremont South, a development proposal. One of Carrboro’s most beautiful meadows, also a wildlife habitat that backs up to...
by admin | Jul 23, 2012 | Bolin Creek Watershed, Chapel Hill High School water Sustainability Initiative, Friends of Bolin Creek
In the early hours this Thursday, June 26, 75 hard working volunteers will unleash their hammers at Chapel Hill High School to launch the CHHS Water Sustainability Initiative. This long term campaign, spearheaded by CHHS Earth Sciences teacher Rob Greenberg and...
by admin | Jun 28, 2012 | Bolin Creek Watershed
What is Carrboro doing about stream protection? June 26, 2012 Carrboro agreed to pass Jordan Lake rules to reduce nutrients (that is, nitrogen and phosphorus) in rainwater runoff that pollutes our creeks and drinking supplies. Yet, at the same time, developers can...
