Archive for KLPW – Water Safety
Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on May 21, 2014
NORTH CAROLINA SIDE OF KERR LAKE HIT HARDEST
WITH HIGH WATER CAMPSITE CLOSURES FOR MEMORIAL WEEKEND – Spawning Striped Bass in Roanoke River Get Nod/Blame for Slow Release
The 306’ water level at Kerr Lake is anticipated to lower to only about 305-feet above sea level
for this weekend, the Memorial Day holiday. In a testy, if not often heated meeting yesterday, the US Army Corps of Engineers took repeated questions …
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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.
He added …
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on April 20, 2014
The following is a guest article/news release sent to Kerr Lake Park Watch from a group of Kerr Lake area
citizens concerned about coal ash headed by Deborah Ferruccio.
Local citizens are joining with concerned environmental and civic groups in a meeting Thursday evening in Henderson, NC to form a coalition for the purpose of monitoring and cleaning up Kerr Lake
waters in light of the coal ash spill several months ago.The organizational meeting of …
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