[PDF] Top 20 WRRI News No. 323 May-June 2000

... mixes oxygen into the soil, oxidizing organic matter and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Capturing carbon is thought to be important because excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases radiation of ... See full document

... Carolina may have squandered this recent opportunity, we are moving in the right direction by initiating the updates of flood ...economy may be a point of pride, we must recognize that in many areas, ... See full document

... COMMISSION MAY AUTHORIZE THE CON- STRUCTION OF A TERMINAL GROIN BY VARIANCE IF CERTAIN CRITERIA ARE ...CRC may permit terminal groins to control sediment entering an inlet ... See full document

... CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS The 6th International Interdisci- plinary Conference on the Environ- ment will be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 21-24, 2000. You may participate as session organizer, ... See full document

... Users may search and access current biological holdings on the Internet and/or define specific topic of interest and have information delivered to a personal web page on a daily, weekly, biweekly or monthly ... See full document

... Results of a recent U.S. Geological Survey study strongly support the theory that nitrogen pollution is naturally removed from water much more rapidly in small streams than in large rivers. According to USGS, the study ... See full document

... Sensitive Waters Management Strategy, they are less prescriptive and more flexible, according to Commissioner Robert Cook. One difference between the Neuse rules and the Tar-Pam rules is that Tar-Pam farmers electing not ... See full document

... “All of our water systems were originally developed as fire protec- tion systems primarily,” said Rolan. “A very small percentage of the wa- ter we use is for potable purposes.” To maintain the volume and pressure of ... See full document

... consumptive water use for the two new units will be about 42 million gallons per day. He said that to provide additional water for the new units, the utility plans to raise its reservoir, Harris Lake, by 20 feet, expand ... See full document

... ponds may be used for storage and irrigation of reclaimed water as part of a conjunctive use reclaimed water system, that setbacks specified in rules between such lakes or ponds and property lines or wells under ... See full document

... The question of ownership of riverbeds turns on the question of navigability at the time of statehood. If a river was not navigable “in fact” when a state became part of the United States, then private riparian landown- ... See full document

... COUNTIES MAY ENFORCE ORDINANCES WITHIN THE STATE'S PUBLIC TRUST ...city may regulate, re- strict, or prohibit the placement, development, maintenance, repair, alteration, improvement, location, or use of ... See full document

... What prompted the rider that enacted the Data Quality Act? Because there is little legislative history, the genesis of Section 515 is obscure. One widely accepted view is that Section 515 was a reaction by business and ... See full document

... of Soil Science-researched the water management systems now prevalent throughout eastern North Carolina.* Almost 2,000 water management structures have been installed for s[r] ... See full document

... The Water Resources Research Institute has recently published reports on research projects for which it provided funding. Free single copies of the reports are available [r] ... See full document

... Drugs in drinking water. According to a copyrighted article on ScienceNews Online (http://www.sciencenews.org/ sn_arc98/3_21_98/bob1.htm), scientists are finding trace amounts of a range of pharmaceuticals in wastewater ... See full document

... runoff may be affecting sensitive waters, DOT has contracted with Ogden Envi- ronmental and Engineering Services to inventory its existing stormwater ...in 2000, DOT will retrofit one priority outfall in ... See full document

... Poor performing low-consumption toilets. A study by the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Arizona shows that older low-flow toilets that depend on flush valve types that can be altered—such as tank ... See full document

... limit may differ from system to system and even from place to place within the same system depending upon the charac- teristics of the sewage in any particular section of the system (including the number of ... See full document

... Over the 70-year period from 1930 to 2000, the area-weighted average precipitation over the entire state was 49.6 inches per year. If that depth is mul- tiplied by the land area of the state (48,700 sq. mi.), the ... See full document