Archive for KLPW – Water Safety
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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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on April 19, 2014
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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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on April 18, 2014
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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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on May 17, 2013
Although the weekend looks wet, the Kerr Lake level is going down. The guide curve was modified several years ago to keep young virgin
Cyprus trees in Eastern North Carolina from drowning every year.
The water release downstream has been and is impressive in the last week. Who knows?
If you are boating be sure to remember that going near shore can be dangerous, especially near parks and public areas as fireplaces, picnic …
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on January 21, 2013
Kerr Lake levels have been improving due to upstream rainfall. Today’s
lake level was reported at 302 feet above sea level or two feet above normal pool.
At the end of the week, the US Army Corps of Engineers sent information to Kerr Lake Park Watch about dramatic increases that were discussed and forecast in a
meeting of stakeholders earlier in the week.
“Drought conditions/operations at John H Kerr were dramatically overcome this …
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