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Clean Water fund to protect Reems Creek

By Bill Moss, Published: December 28, 2015

The N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund granted $330,000 to help protect an emergency drinking water supply for the town of Weaverville in the headwaters of Reems Creek, a tributary to the French Broad River.

The Trust Fund provided grants to protect surface water at 29 sites encompassing more than 16,000 acres and to restore more than 70,000 feet of stream banks.

"Investments to limit erosion, improve storm water management and buffer our streams and rivers are a critical piece of the State's plan to ensure current and future generations have access to clean drinking water," said CWMTF Executive Director Bryan Gossage. "Beyond protecting our rivers, streams and lakes, special elements of nature that exist in the Tar Heel state — and sometimes nowhere else — also benefit from the grants provided by the fund."

Besides the Reems Creek project, the Clean Water Management Trust Fund in the 2015 grant cycle approved $500,000 to protect Lake Waccamaw and the Waccamaw River in Columbus County.