. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. director of the service. Each shows base-map data such as roads, streams, urban areas and counties, plus other data on erosion rates, drainage and conservation areas, land use and soil depths. Matching these factors helps pinpoint areas likely to erode, says Bill Holman, a lobbyist for the Conservation Council of North Carolina. Mapping is important not only to scientists and farmers, but also the policymaker judging which areas need attention, and to developers considering sites for construction. And righ
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. director of the service. Each shows base-map data such as roads, streams, urban areas and counties, plus other data on erosion rates, drainage and conservation areas, land use and soil depths. Matching these factors helps pinpoint areas likely to erode, says Bill Holman, a lobbyist for the Conservation Council of North Carolina. Mapping is important not only to scientists and farmers, but also the policymaker judging which areas need attention, and to developers considering sites for construction. And right now, "There's so much construction in this area it just overwhelms you," says Steve Conrad, director of the Division of Land Resources. Part of his job is to see that builders use an approved erosion control plan when con- structing. But since this was made a law in 1973, some builders have complied and some haven't, says Conrad. For this reason, $158,000 were budgeted for the division to im- prove monitoring of construction sites in the three watershed areas. Photo by Jim Page. Budget calls for improved planning of development Monitoring of a different kind will be taking place in the Chowan, Jordan and Falls. The Clean Water Budget in- cluded about $350,000 for the study of the water quality standards of each, says W. Lee Fleming Jr., chief of the Water Quality Section of the Division of Environmental Management. Researchers will sample and analyze nutrients taken from these areas. A major concern of Fleming's is the regulation of phosphates. He says if the legislature had passed the con- troversial phosphate ban, the problem would have been reduced by 25 percent. But the municipal discharges of phosphate are just part of the problem. "We still need to know how many nutrients are going into the rivers and who's contributing what. You want to be fair in asking different groups to decrease nutrients," says Holman. And to do this, "more information is
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