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A 2011 law that took final say over contested permits from the state environmental agency and gave it to the Office of Administrative Hearings, a move the petition argues is in violation of the ...
The Orange Water and Sewer Authority is a nonprofit public utility that provides water and sewage services to the Carrboro-Chapel Hill area. [1] It gets its water from Cane Creek Reservoir, University Lake, and Quarry Reservoir. OWASA has 343 miles of water mains and 294 miles of sewers.
Orange County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census , the population was 148,696. [ 2 ] Its county seat is Hillsborough . [ 3 ]
Founded in 2007, the Rogers-Eubanks Coalition to End Environmental Racism, often abbreviated as CEER, has a three part mission. The first part is to undo the recent decision of Orange County to locate a new waste transfer center in their community. The second is to restore just health and safety in the areas surrounding the Orange County Landfill.
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This is a list of Superfund sites in North Carolina designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. . The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations
Proposals to build a reservoir on Cane Creek were made as the area's population was growing too large to be sustained by University Lake. [1] In the 1950s, Daniel Okun, professor of environmental sciences and engineering at UNC, tasked his students with determining the best potential water source for UNC.