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The Yadkin River serves as the drinking water supply for over a half million people in the Piedmont Triad Area. Yadkin Riverkeeper's mission is to respect, protect, and improve the Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin through education, advocacy, and action.
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Pure Farms, Pure Water
GOAL: Eliminate the impacts of factory farms on our waterways and our communities.
CAFOs stands for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, commonly known as factory farms. These operations cram thousands of animals into warehouse style buildings, creating one of the greatest sources of water pollution in the country, endangering public health and putting family...
Celebrating 40 Years of the Clean Water Act
Celebrating 40 Years of Clean Water and Healthy Communities.
Nearly 40 years ago, Congress signed into law a historic piece of legislation that would turn the tide of our polluted waterways and hold big polluters accountable for their actions and attacks on the health of our communities. Prior to the Clean Water Act’s enactment, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted that it was literally in flames...
Fracking
Fracking in North Carolina
The North Carolina General Assembly passed Senate Bill 820 in July of 2012, legalizing hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", the practice of horizontal drilling to extract natural gas from shale rock formations. NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources set up the Mining and Energy Commission to study and assess the fracking process and to determine...
Clean Water Under Attack
Vigilance Alert:
Legislation working its way through congress would severly impair the EPA's authority to impose restrictions on polluters nationwide. This legislation would give the states veto power on a number of water quality concerns that the Clean Water Act currently authorizes the EPA to make - essentially circumventing the EPA's ability to stop states from dismantling water quality...
Alcoa Pollution
See the map below to view the locations of Alcoa's 46 Solid Waste Management Units (SWMUs). These areas contain concentrated levels of toxins produced by the aluminum smelting process, including arsenic, cyanide, PCBs and flouride.
Monroe Litigation: Latest Update
On April 26, 2013 the US Army Corps of Engineers revoked NCDOT's permit for the Monroe Bypass. The permit is required under section 404 of the Clean Water Act and the Bypass cannot be constructed without it. The Yadkin Riverkeeper along with Clean Air Carolina and the NC Wildlife Federation have been urging the Corps to revoke the permit since the ruling by the United States Court of...
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Tour de Yadkin Kickoff Paddle: Ferguson to Kerr Scott Lake
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