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Tag: bolin-creek

  • Watershed Protection from the Kids’ Point of View

    The kids’ understand how important watershed protection is: Haw River Assembly Puppet Show, Creek Action Day, 2011

  • Another Splash in Lake Jordan

    Quick update on last week’s post Easthom: Let’s Revisit Lake Jordan. Several weeks ago Chapel Hill approved an amendment to language of the 2001 Water and Sewer Management, Planning and Agreement (WSMPBA) which gave OWASA much more leeway in tapping OWASA’s 5 million gallon per day (5Mg/d) allocation from Lake Jordan. At that time there […]

  • Think Blue: Baldwin Park Bolin Creek Restoration Commemoration

    Though the day was grey, this morning’s formal commemoration of the end of the current phase of Baldwin Park’s stream restoration project was well attended by local pols: Carrboro Alderman Randee Haven-O’Donnel, Lydia Lavelle, Sammy Slade, Chapel Hill’s Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt and Council member Donna Bell (who lives a few steps away from the park) […]

  • Think Blue: Four Toes in the Creek

    Local environmentalist and incredible photographer Mary Sonis has made a stunning discovery in her backyard. Below is a rare 4 toed salamander, “a species of special concern in North Carolina” (to quote her excited announcement). Mary contacted an expert at the North Carolina Museum of Life and Sciences who said he had never seen one […]

  • Bolin Creek Beauty

    I’ve been highlighting the importance of treating the Bolin Creek watershed as a regional resource suffering from our piecemeal approach establishing adequate policies for its protection. The whole basin requires, and deserves, a greater level of cooperation between Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Orange County, Orange Water and Sewer Authority(OWASA), the State’s Divisions of Water Quality (DENR-DWQ) […]

  • UNC’s Carolina North Lurches Ahead

    [UPDATE] Allison Gunn posted the same notice over on OP, with this additional note: “For further information about campaigns to alter the development, see the Friends of Bolin Creek website: www.bolincreek.org” . Also, I contacted Tiffany Clarke to see if they could video the proceedings. She’s currently looking into that – maybe the folks at […]