File:Coast watch (1979) (20660552855).jpg

Title: Coast watch
Identifier: coastwatch00uncs_12 (find matches)
Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
Publisher: (Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina
Digitizing Sponsor: North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
settle out or leach into the soil for treatment. Low "check dams" placed across the swale can slow water even further. Permeable pavements, which combine concrete or plastic grids with sand, rock and soil, allow water to pass through them and seep into the ground. Though they are not as strong as conventional roadways, permeable pavements can easily be adopted for use in overflow parking lots, driveways and emergency lanes. Hope forthe Future Tom Singleton, who attended a Jumping Run community design workshop in September, is eager to get involved with the project. Singleton owns and operates Water's Edge RV Park, a 13-acre camp- ground on Bogue Sound. "Every time the shellfish beds are open, my people like to go out there and look for clams," Singleton
Text Appearing After Image:
TOP: From the bridge at Barnesfield, Jumping Run Creek flows south between bulkheads to Bogue Sound. CENTER: Water leaving Water's Edge RVPark flows through these cattails near Jumping Run Creek. BOTTOM: Tom Singleton hopes the Jumping Run project will help him enhance the wetlands encircling his campground. says. "It's part of the campground. I'd love to see it be better." Like many other coastal residents, Singleton has a ditch on his property that drains into a swamp alongside Jumping Run. Singleton hopes the restoration project will help him enhance the wetlands on his property. "One of the things they said at the workshop is that you can have a sick wetland," he says. "If I'm going to have wetlands on my property, I want them to be the best ones around." Preston Pate, director of the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries, is also quick to praise the restoration project. Jumping Run Creek runs through his back yard, and he recommended the watershed for the project "because it lent itself very neatly to the experimental phase of the planning.... It's a real diverse but discrete system to work with." With 18 percent of the state's shellfish beds considered permanently closed, communities up and down the coast will be tracking the outcomes of the Jumping Run Shellfish Restoration Project. "There's the potential for applying that technique to other areas if it proves to work here," Pate says. If the project works as planned, Jumping Run could see reduced bacterial levels by the end of this shellfishing season. In spring, the CCEC will be planting wetland vegetation and installing bird- houses. Other landowners will be tending rain gardens and grooming grassy swales. If all goes well, when the holidays roll around next year, homeowners along Jumping Run Creek may be making oyster stuffing and clam chowder from shellfish gathered in their own back yards. □ For more information on Jumping Run Shellfish Restoration Project, call Barbara Doll at 919/515-5287. To get a copy of the award-winning Coastal Water Quality Handbook which describes runoff, pollution and water quality in greater detail, call the North Carolina Sea Grant office at 919/515- 2454, or mail a check for $6 to North Carolina Sea Grant, NC State University, Box 8605, Raleigh, NC 27695-8605. Write UNC-SG-97-04 in the memo line. COASTWATCH 23

Note About Images