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The Alamance-Burlington School System [1] is a school district covering Alamance County and the city of Burlington in the U.S. state of North Carolina.It was created in July 1996 by merging the respective systems of the county and city.
The Haw River is a tributary of the Cape Fear River, approximately 110 mi (177 km) long, that is entirely contained in north central North Carolina in the United States. It was first documented as the "Hau River" by John Lawson, an English botanist, in his 1709 book "A New Voyage to Carolina."
Haw River is bordered by Burlington to the west, Graham to the south, and Green Level to the north.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.9 square miles (7.4 km 2), of which 2.8 square miles (7.3 km 2) is land and 0.039 square miles (0.1 km 2), or 1.38%, is water. [4]
For the 2016-17 school year, Henderson County Public Schools had a total population of 13,521 students, 1,520 full-time teachers, 361 part-time teachers, and 1,155 substitutes. [3]
Great Alamance Creek, also called Big Alamance Creek, is a 37-mile long [4] creek that is a tributary of the Haw River. The creek's headwaters are in Guilford County, but it flows primarily through Alamance County, North Carolina. It is a major source of water for the cities of Burlington and Greensboro through the Lake Mackintosh Reservoir.
Sutton and the Haw River Assembly measured PFAS levels as high as 33,000 parts per trillion in the river in November 2019. Those have now declined to 519 parts per trillion.
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Burlington is a city in Alamance and Guilford counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina.It is the principal city of the Burlington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Alamance County, in which most of the city is located, and is a part of the Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area.