Archive for KLPW – Environmental
Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on April 21, 2015
Although the group, Roanoke River Basin Association (RRBA), is working on a layman’s version of its opposition to the withdrawal of large amounts of water from Kerr Lake by the Kerr Lake Regional Water System to sell and send to Raleigh and other locations, Kerr Lake Park Watch is compelled to release the RRBA’s legal … Read more
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on April 20, 2015
A fairly visible lake support group is up in arms about a proposed and scheduled-to-be-signed water use agreement that could take 10 million gallons of water a day out of Kerr Lake, which could affect lake levels. A news release sent to KLPW and authored by Deborah Ferruccio, a leader the lake support group called … Read more
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on May 7, 2014
Hearing the news that the EPA, the Virginia Department of Health and the NC Department of Health & Human
Resources said, “It’s OK to play in Kerr Lake today” it seems like that the even the wildlife around the lake knows that something is up, maybe even better. At Kerr Lake Park
Watch, we think the news didn’t come a minute to soon, and for now, is something to soar about.
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Posted by on May 6, 2014
Ask a simple question and finally, months later, you get an answer. Kerr Lake Park Watch greatly acknowledges the
efforts of Michael T Womack, Operations Project Manager at John H. Kerr Reservoir, in securing answers about the recreational effects of
coal ash on the lake’s visitors.
Quietly and unobtrusively last week, the Virginia Department of Health and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services put out a
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on May 2, 2014
COAL ASH? Do we know the current safety level of Kerr Lake? No! Because
NO PUBLIC AGENCY will speak to that. So we’ll head on to the picnic areas and campsites…because it’s time to PIG OUT KERR LAKE STYLE!
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