Archive for KLPW – MAIN NEWS
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 25, 2014
As the busiest weekend of the year at Kerr Lake moves forward in the sunshine, the rain remnants of flooded campsites remind us that nearly
25 percent of the campers at the seven NC State Recreation Areas on the North Carolina side are not getting their Memorial Day holiday at Kerr Lake.
WRAL’s Tara Lynn updates the situation: http://www.wral.com/rising-waters-cause-flooding-at-kerr-lake-campsites/13672992/
The lake’s level is still near 305 feet above sea level.
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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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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on May 2, 2014
Update Story Posted by Jane Porter on The Indy onThu, May 1, 2014 at 4:44 PM
Last week Tom Reeder, the director of DENR’s Division of Water Resources, emphatically told lawmakers that no coal ash deposits have been found to date in
Kerr Lake.
“There’s been a lot of anecdotal reporting about ash in Kerr Lake,†Reeder said at an Environmental Review Commission meeting.
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