Water You Know!

Aquifers
Groundwater Planning- Resource Evaluation and Management Studies

Aquatic Animals
Bugs
EPA Kids Masterbug Theatre
DWQ Bug Collection Procedures (slide show)
DWQ Manual for Collection of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Data

Fish
DWQ Manual for Fish Community and Fish Tissue Assessment
Fish Base
Fish Kill Events

Other
Iron and Manganese Fixing Bacteria
N.C. Crayfish - Life at the Bottom
N.C. Freshwater Mussels

Drinking Water Health Advisories (U.S. EPA)

Stormwater
2007 NC Stormwater BMP Manual
DWQ Stormwater Permitting Unit
DENR Stormwater and Runoff Pollution
"Improving Water Quality in Your Own Backyard"
"National Management Measures to Control Nonpoint Source Pollution from Urban Areas" (EPA)
Universal Stormwater Management Program
U.S. EPA Stormwater
"Water Quality, We All Play a Part"

Stream Identification
Identification Methods for the Origins of Intermittent and Perennial Streams

Vegetated Buffers
"Buffers for Clean Water"

Water Quality Planning
Supplemental Guide to North Carolina's Basinwide Water Quality Planning

Hurricanes
DENR Storm Season Page
U.S. EPA Hurricane Page

Monitoring Water Quality
DWQ Ambient Monitoring Network
DWQ Manual for Collection of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Data

Water Pollution
The NC Integrated Report (Water Quality Assessment and Impaired Waters List)

What is that slime or film in the creek?
It may be iron fixing bacteria.

Nonpoint Source Management Program
Nonpoint Source Pollution Management Categories
Slide Show on Nonpoint Source Pollution

Water Supply Watershed Protection Program

Reclaimed Water Information

River Basins
Which River Basin Are You In?
River Basin Interactive Map (from DENR Division of Environmental Education)

Sediment
Erosion and Sedimentation Program (Division of Land Resources)

Wastewater Treatment
How Sewer Systems Work (From How Stuff Works)
Water Recycling

Wetlands
Coastal Wetlands (DENR Division of Coastal Resources)
Common Wetlands Plants in North Carolina
U.S. EPA Wetlands
Wetlands Primer