Environment

Articles noting ways the environment can be affected.

Beaches are being closed because of high levels of bacteria.

Beach Closures Are a Reminder: Waste Doesn’t Disappear

For most people, that story is about a ruined beach day.

For those of us who work with soil, nutrients, waste streams and land management, it points to something bigger.

Waste does not disappear. It moves. It gets treated. It gets discharged. It gets hauled. It gets spread. It gets washed. It enters another part of the system.

That is the part we cannot afford to ignore.

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North Carolina’s water quality in danger due to excess nutrients

Stories about water quality have dominated the news lately. While lead and other toxins are dangerous additions to our drinking water systems, they are not the only dangers. Case in point, B. Everett Jordan Lake in North Carolina’s Research Triangle. The lake is a man-made reservoir created by the construction of the self-named dam across

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