Protect the Broad River Basin: Comment on The 2024 Broad River Basin Plan for the Future of Our Rivers, Lakes, & Streams

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Paddlers enjoying the First Broad River. 

Now is your chance to make your voice heard and help influence our Department of Environmental Quality in planning for a healthy Broad River Watershed.

The 2024 Broad River Basin Plan is being developed for the Broad River Basin by the North Carolina Division of Water Resources (DWR). DWR wants to hear from you – tell DWR to stand firm in their recommendations to:

• Improve stream monitoring.
• Offer financial incentives for the preservation or restoration of riparian areas.
• Actively assess water quality in Kings Mountain Reservoir.
• Evaluate and better support the staffing and resource needs of the biological assessment and ambient monitoring programs.

Ask DWR to do more by:

• Developing a list of known significant violations or exceedances in discharge limits for permitted facilities, how these violations can affect water quality, and how DEQ staff should address and monitor these polluters.
• Study the combined effects on water quality from the application of fertilizer (including poultry manure), sludge (land applied residuals) application to fields, and runoff from animal farming operations.
• Develop minimum flow requirements for Lake Adger Dam into the Green River and Lake Lure Dam into the Broad River.
• Acknowledge the extensive recreational use of our rivers for swimming, boating, and fishing, and protect these waterways for their current uses.
• Planning for floods from storms like Helene and developing an extensive resiliency strategy for the future.

>> Click here to read MountainTrue’s comments

>>Click here to read the 2024 Broad River Basinwide Water Quality Plan Draft