environment
Vultures: Not as foul as you might think
Aug. 30. This may be too awesome to turn down: The Carolina Raptor Center will have a carcass feeding at 2 pm Saturday, which is International Vulture Awareness Day. In honor of vultures’ bald heads, anyone who is bald will get in free. Here’s what the day looks like: 10:30 am: 30-minute presentation by a […]
Catawba Riverkeeper: LKN water quality is ‘excellent’
Aug. 24. By Dave Yochum. Over the past three years there have been more than a dozen sewage spills in and around Cornelius into the waters of Lake Norman, a most regrettable series of events that caused plenty of negativity on various Facebook pages, but no long-term efffect, according to Catawba Riverkeeper Brandon Jones. […]
No Swim advisory near Blue Stone Harbor has been lifted
Aug. 16. The No Swim advisory for part of the lake between Blue Stone Harbor and Hello Sailor has been lifted after a week’s time. The advisory was issued Aug. 8, after a sewage spill into Lake Norman. The cause was a power outage at a private lift station located at 21328 Nautique Blvd. According […]
Another sewage spill in LKN at Nautique Boulevard
Aug. 8. [Updated] A No Swim Advisory was issued after a sewage spill into Lake Norman due to a power outage at a private lift station located at 21328 Nautique Blvd. in Cornelius. It’s the second spill at this address in less than three months. Repairs are under way. NEW: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services says the […]
No Swim Advisory lifted for cove adjacent to Jetton Park
July 10. The No Swim Advisory issued on July 5 for a cove next to Jetton Park has been lifted. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Service blamed a pipe failure for causing the overflow. The pipe has been repaired, and water tests indicate the spill has dissipated. The 875 gallon spill was the third such incident in […]
Sewage spill in cove adjacent to Jetton Park
July 5. There’s been another sewage spill in Lake Norman, this time in a cove between Jetton Park and Halyard Pointe/Double Eagle in The Peninsula. A pipe failure on July 4 caused the overflow, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services (CMSW). It’s the third spill in five weeks in Cornelius waters. The new spill is […]
A pipe failure is at the center of a legal impasse
June 28. By Lisa Sorg/NC Newsline. For the past three years, a sinkhole in a Mooresville parking lot has released coal ash into a tributary of Lake Norman, in part because of a legal impasse about who is responsible — the property owners or Duke Energy — for repairing the damage. The cause, says a […]
No-swim advisory lifted for cove between Nautique and Baltic
June 16. The “No Swim Advisory” due to a sewage spill at a cove near Nautique Boulevard has been lifted by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services. It was roughly 8,000 gallons, more than 10 times larger than any spill in Cornelius waters last year. It occurred at a private sanitary sewer manhole located at 21328 Nautique […]
Sewage spill near Nautique Blvd. is about 8,000 gallons
June 11. A “No Swim Advisory” has been issued for a cove near Nautique Boulevard due to a sewage spill. At approximately 8,000 gallons, it’s more than 10 times larger than any spill in Cornelius waters last year. It occurred at a private sanitary sewer manhole located at 21328 Nautique Boulevard. The discharge was caused […]
No swim advisory lifted after test
June 1. The no swimming advisory for Knox Cove near Torrence Chapel Estates Circle has been lifted after laboratory results indicated bacteria counts were within safe limits. On Saturday we reported roughly 460 gallons of sewage spilled into the lake due to a damaged pipe on Torrence Chapel Estates Circle. The damage was caused by […]
