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Pollution of the river had become prevalent in the early 1800s [7] as contaminants from municipal and industrial discharges, bank erosion, commercial/residential development, atmospheric deposition, hazardous waste disposal sites, urban storm water runoff, combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and wastewater treatment plant bypasses were discharged ...
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) is an agency of the government of North Carolina that focuses on the preservation and protection of natural resources and public health. The department is headed by the Secretary of Environmental Quality, who is appointed by the Governor of North Carolina and is a member of the ...
The North Carolina Register includes information about state agency rules, administrative rules, executive orders and other notices, and is published bimonthly. [6] The State of North Carolina Administrative Code (NCAC) contains all the rules adopted by the state agencies and occupational licensing boards in North Carolina. [6]
A handful of bills that North Carolina’s legislature passed into law over the past two years will go into effect Monday. Here are highlights of some of these new laws and their provisions:
A septic tank is an underground chamber made of concrete, fiberglass, or plastic through which domestic wastewater flows for basic sewage treatment. [2] Settling and anaerobic digestion processes reduce solids and organics, but the treatment efficiency is only moderate (referred to as "primary treatment"). [2]
By July 2019 — two months after the plant opened — Columbia officials found the factory in “significant non-compliance’’ with wastewater regulations, according to a 2019 letter from the ...
The passage of the North Carolina Planned Community Act illustrates the growing power homeowner associations have gained throughout the year. The state law expresses the state's power over the homeowner association. It even describes certain practices in which it must submit to the authority of the county.
New Mexico environmental officials have proposed a new regulatory framework for reusing wastewater with a focus on the used, salty byproducts of oil and natural gas drilling in a major U.S ...