Muddy Water Watch™

North Carolina Riverkeepers Working With Citizens To Protect Our Local Waterways

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MWW Training Manual

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How to Use This Manual

Understanding Permits

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GTDO In Your Watershed

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Test Yourself

Erosion Control Practices

Silt Fence

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Mulching

Sediment Basin

Temporary Sediment Trap

Check Dam

Curb Inlet Filter

MWW In the News

Case Studies

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Sediment Pollution Runoff from Construction Sites

 
Sediment Pollution Map
 
Click on the map to see sediment pollution spots identified by MWW volunteers
Upcoming Workshops
Pamlico-Tar River Basin (Feb./March 2009 in Pitt County)

French Broad River Basin (Feb./March, 2009 in Ashville, NC)

Upper Neuse River Basin (March/April, 2009 in Cary, NC)

Haw RIVERKEEPER in Orange County to include Chapel Hill and Carrboro ( Feb./March at NC Botanical Gardens)

Cawtawba Riverkeeper Foundation will be starting classes (Feb./April/May/June in various locations)

Lower Neuse River Basin (March/April in New Bern, NC)

Yadkin River Basin (May in Winston-Salem, NC) 

Participating Riverkeeper Programs in North Carolina
Please locate the MWW program in your region and check their website for information
on future MWW workshops or send them an email to let them know you are interested.


Riverlink (French Broad River Basin)

Catawba Riverkeeper (Catawba River Basin)

Watauga Riverkeeper (Watauga River Basin)

Winyah Rivers (Lumber River Basin)

Yadkin Riverkeeper (Yadkin PeeDee River Basin)

Upper Neuse Riverkeeper (Neuse River Basin)

Lower Neuse Riverkeeper (Neuse River Basin)

Pamlico-Tar River Foundation (Pamlico Tar River Basin)

Cape Fear River Watch (Cape Fear River Basin)

Haw Riverkeeper (formerly Haw River Assembly)

Watch sediment pollution at its worst

 
Pollution Trackers
Learn how to track sediment pollution using IM Rivers
Learn how to file your Site Report Cards
 
Help Support Muddy Water Watch, continuation of Georgia's Get the Dirt Out project
Click on the image to learn more about Get the Dirt Out
 

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“When things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, the citizens, when well informed, can be relied upon to set them right.”

~Thomas Jefferson