. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. THIS PAGE, TOP TO BOTTOM: A water lily offers beauty. • Kenneth Bate man speaks with Senior Bank Manager Ted Godwin about the bioretentbn area at Bank in Smithfield. • River Bend is nestled along- side the Trent River. • Smithfield-Selma SeniorHigh School students remove litter from their outdoor class- room —later designing a net to trap the pesky trash. SUCCESS S" _ FLOW ALONG THE NEUSE iL y , L 4j L~y. L iL.£*. % % efv r T I he search for the cause of a series of fish kills in 1995 erupte
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. THIS PAGE, TOP TO BOTTOM: A water lily offers beauty. • Kenneth Bate man speaks with Senior Bank Manager Ted Godwin about the bioretentbn area at Bank in Smithfield. • River Bend is nestled along- side the Trent River. • Smithfield-Selma SeniorHigh School students remove litter from their outdoor class- room —later designing a net to trap the pesky trash. SUCCESS S" _ FLOW ALONG THE NEUSE iL y , L 4j L~y. L iL.£*. % % efv r T I he search for the cause of a series of fish kills in 1995 erupted in concern for the state of water quality in the Neuse River and its estuary. Nutrient loading, Pfiesteria piscida and other factors were linked to water degradation. Studies rapidly evolved into action with the 1996 diafting of the Neuse River Nutrient Sensitive Waters Management Strategy. The "Neuse Rules" became the first basinwide strategy in the state. It's been more than five years since the Environmental Management Commission put the rules into effect on Aug. 1,1998. Goals calling for a 30 percent reduction in nitrogen loading by the year 2003 have been met, and the Neuse River seems to be showing improvement "The general tendency for total nitrogen data in the Neuse River and estuary is a slight downward trend over the past five years," says Ken Reckhow, director of the University of North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute. There are various hypotheses as to why the decrease in nitrogen occurred, but as Reckhow points out, it is likely due to a number of factors rather than a single factor. Committed to continual improvement, professionals pooled their knowledge at Neuse River Basin: Five Years of Progress, a conference focusing on stormwater management. Stormwater is a nonpoint source of pollution — having no defined point of entry into the water system. As opposed to point source pollution — discharge from a pipe or ditch a
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