The N.C. Coastal Federation will help Swansboro Methodist Church incorporate green designs to control stormwater at its new Family Life and Ministry Center.
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Wilmington School Will Get Green Award
Bradley Creek Elementary School’s work to control runoff and provide an outdoor classroom of flowers,insects and amphibians will be honored today as an outstanding achievement in sustainable building.
They Deserve a Break Today?
McDonald’s request for an exemption to the state’s stormwater regulations illustrates how confusing the rules can be, especially when different regulators seem to enforce them differently. It all has one small-town mayor scratching his head in confusion.
A New Way to Control Stormwater
It took a couple of years of busting up concrete, moving dirt around and digging holes for plants, but the first saltwater wetland in the state that’s designed to treat polluted runoff is now open in Manteo as a town park.
River’s Residents Are a Little Crazy
It’s fair to say that some of the folks who live along the Lockwoods Folly River in Brunswick County are a little crazy — about clean rivers and sounds, native plants and healthy oysters and fish.
McDonald’s Seeks Exemption From Runoff Rules
McDonald’s wants to build a new restaurant in Swansboro and is seeking to take advantage of a loophole in state rules that would allow the company to do nothing to control polluted stormwater.
Pelican Award Winner: East Carolina Community Development, Inc.
Eastern Carolina Community Development, Inc., one of the federation’s Pelican Award winners, provides an excellent demonstration of how low impact development can be incorporated into affordable housing.
New Dealership Going Green
Stevenson Toyota in Jacksonville has a new dealership under construction and the federation is congratulating them, because they’re designing the site as a showcase of low-impact development.
Head of the Class: Onslow County School System Gives Federation Award
Rain Gardens Rule! The Onslow County School System gave us its annual Businesses Assisting Schools award this year for working with students to install them in local schools.
When It Rains, It Pours
That’s what it’s done all summer in Nags Head, where a 50-year-old network of ditches, culverts and pipes dramatically showed its age after more than 3 feet of rain.
Pesticide-Laden Runoff Kills Blue Crabs
Thousands of crabs died after a pesticide sprayed on a cotton field washed into a canal near the Pamlico River, causing state officials to wonder what these deadly chemicals are doing to aquatic life. They don’t know because no one really keeps track.
Pelican Award Winner: N.C. History Center
An old, polluted boatyard in New Bern is now home to a modern museum that may be the “greenest” building in North Carolina.
Controlling the Stormwater Spigot
Nearly 40 town officials gathered last week at a seminar sponsored by the federation to learn about innovative methods to control polluted runoff.
Federation Wins Home Builders’ Award
The Wilmington-Cape Fear Home Builders Association gave the federation its 2012 Coastal Green Built Award, a symbol of the growing relationship between the two disparate groups.
Plans for Old Coast Guard Base Raise Trepidation
Neighbors of the old Coast Guard base in Buxton worry about stormwater controls after developers announce plans to buy and restore the property.
Cherry Point Takes Steps to Help the Neuse
The Marine Corps Air Station plans to remove a stormwater ditch that dumps untreated runoff into the river and replace a damaged bulkhead with a natural shoreline.
