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An aerial view of the Marshall Steam Station, a coal power plant owned by Duke Energy situated near Lake Norman in Sherrills Ford, N.C. Tuesday, July 26, 2022.
At least 60 Lake Norman neighbors have emailed state regulators urging them to reject Duke Energy’s plans for two natural gas turbines off their curvy, tree-draped, two-lane Catawba County road.
Brooks urged residents to stay updated on lake levels and alerts by local county officials. A drone image shows homes submerged in flood water from the Catawba River Saturday, September 28, 2024.
In 2006 the river became the center of a water use controversy between the residents of the Catawba watershed and Cabarrus County, North Carolina. The cities of Concord and Kannapolis are expecting a daily shortfall of 22 million US gallons (83,000 m 3 ) of water a day by 2035 [ 5 ] in their Rocky River watershed and want to pump up to 36 ...
Birds and waterfowl are also important ecological actors that contribute to the overall health and balance of the Lake Norman ecosystem. Of a total of 115 bird species, 54 species are neotropical migrants and 27 were transients to the North Carolina Piedmont. The Catawba River is a suitable migratory corridor for a variety of these birds.
The Charlotte Regional Partnership also identifies three additional counties to what they refer to as the "Charlotte Region"—Alexander and Catawba counties in North Carolina, and Chesterfield County, South Carolina. Catawba and Alexander counties are currently part of the Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area or "the ...
Tuesday’s earthquake was confirmed at 11:52 p.m. in the area between Catawba, South Carolina, and Jaars, North Carolina, the South Carolina Emergency Management Division said. It happened about ...
Catawba County (/ k ə ˈ t ɔː b ə / kuh-TAW-buh) [1] is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census , the population was 160,610. [ 2 ] Its county seat is Newton , [ 3 ] and its largest community is Hickory .