Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Chowan and lower Roanoke drainage basins. North Landing River. ... Bone Gray Branch; Stonyton Creek ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of North Carolina (1974)
Left: greywater sample from an office building. Right: Same greywater after treatment in membrane bioreactor. Greywater (or grey water, sullage, also spelled gray water in the United States) refers to domestic wastewater generated in households or office buildings from streams without fecal contamination, i.e., all streams except for the wastewater from toilets.
located along the South Carolina-North Carolina border in northern Pickens County, South Carolina, and southern Transylvania County, North Carolina, nearest to the town of Rosman, North Carolina: US 64: North Carolina 2,694 feet (821 m) crossing Savannah watershed: North Carolina–South Carolina [specify]
Also 36 percent of the poultry population (approximately 66 million birds) in the state. Hog farming has been a contentious issue in many parts of North Carolina, but the river basin only supports 2 percent of North Carolina's swine population. Crop lands decreased by 46 percent between 1982 and 1992, while urban development increased by 38 ...
The rivers of central North Carolina rise on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge. The two largest of these are the Catawba River and the Yadkin River, and they drain much of the Piedmont region of the state. The major rivers of Eastern North Carolina, from north to south, are: the Chowan, the Roanoke, the Tar, the Neuse and the Cape Fear.
Its drainage basin, measuring 5,630 square miles (14,600 km 2) in area, also lies entirely inside North Carolina. It is formed by the confluence of the Flat and Eno rivers prior to entering the Falls Lake reservoir in northern Wake County .
Watersheds of North America are large drainage basins which drain to separate oceans, seas, gulfs, or endorheic basins. There are six generally recognized hydro-logical continental divides which divide the continent into seven principal drainage basins spanning three oceans ( Arctic , Atlantic and Pacific ) and one endorheic basin.
The Broad River originates in the Blue Ridge Mountains of eastern Buncombe County, North Carolina [3] and flows generally south-southeastwardly, through or along the boundaries of Rutherford, Polk and Cleveland Counties in North Carolina; [4] and Cherokee, York, Union, Chester, Fairfield, Newberry and Richland Counties in South Carolina. [2]