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Water Quality

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Salinity

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Fish Kills

Health Precautions around Fish Kills

Lesion Prevalence on Juvenile Menhaden in the Pamlico and Neuse Estuaries 1999-2002

Menhaden Lesion Project 2002

Menhaden Lesion Project 2001

Menhaden Lesion Project 2000 Report

Neuse River ModMon Project

ModMon Data

The Neuse River Rapid Response Team, located in New Bern, N.C., is responsible for monitoring water quality conditions in the lower Neuse River watershed below Kinston. The team's primary charge is rapid evaluation of acute water quality related events like fish kills and algal blooms. During routine operations, the team performs regular monitoring duties along the river, collecting monthly ambient water quality samples at long term sites, and working collaboratively with other research agencies in monitoring field parameters (e.g. dissolved oxygen, pH, temperature, salinity) to track conditions. The Neuse Team, which began operations in June, 1997 has been involved with many cooperative research efforts involving fish disease, harmful algae, and harmful algal blooms*. Team members frequently interact with the public in an educational capacity to pass along a better understanding of water quality issues.

Current water quality conditions at three locations on the lower Neuse River (Hwy 17 Bridge at New Bern, Channel Marker 9, and Channel Marker 11) can be viewed on a US Geological Survey web site. These readings are made possible by monitoring platforms funded by the Division of Water Quality. A photograph of the platform on Marker 11 can be seen here. Instruments on these platforms perform real-time measurements of dissolved oxygen, pH, salinity, temperature, and depth which are then uplinked to satellite and to the USGS computers every hour.

Similar data, both real-time and long-term can be viewed for sites monitored by the Neuse River Estuary Modeling and Monitoring Project .

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This page created 3/19/01; updated 12/12/05

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