Why NC Water-Quality Plans Must Include SolarBee as Pollution Prevention

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Why NC Water-Quality Plans Must Include SolarBee as Pollution Prevention

Jordan Lake has always been impaired. As a reservoir built on low-lying, nutrient-rich farmland and filled with water that can take more than a year to traverse it, the lake has high nutrient levels and stagnant water that enable detrimental blue-green algae to dominate the beneficial algae at the base of the aquatic food web.

Reservoirs such as the 14,000-acre Jordan Lake are built to control water quantity, not quality. Developing a cost-effective plan to improve Jordan's water quality requires addressing these questions: What is federal policy? Is it working well? If not, how can we do better? Read More

Source: News Observer

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