. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. side of the river," Howard says, and then people would go in swimming. "At the blue stage, it would stain swimsuits. It left green and blue collars on the piers and pound net stakes, and a blue smear along the beach where it met the ; Homeowners in the Arrowhead community, where Howard lives, were furious. "Everybody was upset, and some- body had to take the lead," Howard says. So he did. With a group of friends from the Arrowhead Property Owners Association, Howard signed on
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. side of the river," Howard says, and then people would go in swimming. "At the blue stage, it would stain swimsuits. It left green and blue collars on the piers and pound net stakes, and a blue smear along the beach where it met the ; Homeowners in the Arrowhead community, where Howard lives, were furious. "Everybody was upset, and some- body had to take the lead," Howard says. So he did. With a group of friends from the Arrowhead Property Owners Association, Howard signed on with the regional Stream Watch program. Now incorporated into the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Stream Watch helps local residents to "adopt" a waterway and act on its behalf. The new volunteers gathered information about the water. Hans Paerl, a Sea Grant researcher and champion of water quality improvement on the Chowan quality, ecology and history of the Chowan, and they searched for industries and other facilities contributing to the pollution of the river. With the help of a fisheries grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, the Arrowhead group also purchased a water-quality test kit and began monitoring the river's dissolved oxygen levels, pH, turbidity, salinity and temperature. Armed with new information, the volunteers began publicizing the river's plight and encouraging other residents to get involved. Residents from the Arrow- head community traveled up and down the river, getting the word out to as many people as they could. "We attended women's clubs and Lions clubs, letting them know what was going on and how to help," Howard says. Group members also attended public hear- ings for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits, which industries and treatment plants must maintain in order to discharge wastewater. If the Arrowhead group believed that businesses were not abiding by the regulatio
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