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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 ...
For much of 2024, the committee has expressed skepticism about N.C. Department of Environmental Quality staff’s efforts to craft surface water quality standards for eight forever chemicals.
North Carolinians receive just one-fifth of the protections from 1,4-dioxane that a water quality standard would offer, according to a human health risk assessment DEQ submitted to the General ...
According to the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, more than 300 water systems in the state − including 42 large municipal utilities ... North Carolina also has made funding available to ...
In 2007, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hired Edwards to investigate water-quality problems in three buildings. (When UNC asked its engineering faculty for guidance, their response was "We have two words for you—Marc Edwards.") [ 19 ] He found "low-grade and fixable" lead contamination, which he blamed on "lead-free" brass ...
This report describes methods for calculating the trapezoidal-distribution statistics and rank correlation coefficients for stochastic modeling of volume reduction, hydrograph extension, and water-quality treatment by structural stormwater BMPs and provides the calculated values for these variables.
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality wants to regulate eight specific chemicals that are found in drinking water in North Carolina, compounds understood well enough to determine their safe ...
In 1913, the Corporation Commission was given responsibility for regulating water and hydroelectric utilities. In 1920 the commission was replaced by a single Utilities Commissioner and some part-time staff. [1] In 1941, the General Assembly created the North Carolina Utilities Commission, composed of three commissioners serving six-year terms.