WE NEED YOUR HELP! Ok, coal ash is in Kerr Lake. We’ve known that since mid-February. We simply want an “official in the know” not any opportunistic politician, to tell us Kerr Lake IS or IS NOT safe
for human recreational interaction. PUSH your local, state and/or federal representative to demand the answer. You are a citizen. It’s about time you acted like one and become involved! …

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The NC DENR bosses are pushing the Director of the Division of Water Resources to soften his remarks that coal ash
is in Kerr Lake.  Tom Reeder, who Kerr Lake Park Watch interviewed about two months ago, who said coal ash was in the upper convergence waters of Kerr Lake, is getting pressure from
his bosses to recant that.

As usual, most involved agencies claim they are studying or testing Kerr …

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Government officials easily answer that coal ash is in Kerr Lake. Kerr Lake Park Watch’s
question about coal ash, after two and a half months, still remains unanswered.

Will Kerr Lake be safe this visitor season for the people who visit the public parks, day-use areas, boat ramps, campgrounds, etc., considering that visitors come to have some form of interaction
with the water?  Is the water safe for humans, for fish and plant life?  That’s what …

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It could be a kid gnawing on a chicken leg in the edge of the water, a senior citizen walking briskly through one
of the parks on Kerr Lake, or it could be someone lazily floating just off the shore of one of the lake’s many public areas.

It could be that special and magical fishing moment. People ask
us a lot, especially lately, why KERR …

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“We had a good and purposeful meeting today between state senators and representatives with the NC Department of Administration (DOA) on sorting out the issues to get a new lease in place for
the Steele Creek Marina at Townsville,” said State Senator Chad Barefoot who let DOA and others quickly know that he was there to represent KLPW and many more constituency groups and interested
citizens.
While the legislators believe that DOA and the State Property Office  are working in the best interests of the docking and boating public, they did admonish the …
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