Raleigh and Creedmore recently partnered to preserve 162 acres in Granville County. The mutually beneficial partnership will not only create a stormwater buffer, keeping nitrogen and phosphorous out of Wake’s critical drinking water supply, but will also provide recreation space for Creedmore in the form of a new city park. Read Water supply gets buffer from toxins to learn more.
Falls Lake is Raleigh and Eastern Wake’s critical drinking water supply. The lake is badly polluted and cleanup rules drafted by the Divsion of Water Quality successfully dodged pushback from state legislatures and will therefore take affect January 15, 2010. Click here to learn more about the Falls Lake cleanup process.