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	Cy Stober Water Resources Manager cstober@ptocog.org Malinda Ford GIS Planner mford@ptcog.org Elizabeth Jernigan Stormwater Outreach and Education Coordinator ejernigan@ptcog.org

 

 

 

 

 

Yadkin River Basin • Roanoke River Basin • Haw River Basin • Deep River Basin

 

Water Resources

High Rock Lake

 

Water is more than a natural resource. How we use our water impacts economic, social, and environmental activities.  Only about 0.036 percent of the planet's total water supply is found in lakes and rivers. The quality of this limited supply of water is rapidly declining. To find out more about water quality, please visit our Water Quality page.

Our water resource program is dedicated to ensuring future generations in the Piedmont Triad have access to clean and safe water. We currently have projects underway in all of our river basins. To find out more about what's going on in your community, please click on your river basin. 

 

Watershed Planning

 

Many principles of watershed planning are taken from the Center for Watershed Protection (CWP), which focuses its efforts on Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Chesapeake Bay is in danger of losing its incredibly diverse biology, mainly due to the high levels of development around Washington, D.C.

NC Division of Water Quality (DWQ) is a critical resource for watershed planning in NC, devoting resources to each of the four ecoregions found in our diverse state (Mountains, Piedmont, Sandhills, & Coastal Plain), and creating an infrastructure that enables communities to minimize their stormwater impacts upon water quality through Best Management Practices.

NC State University has created a hugely useful resource with their Water Quality Group.  This group of professors, scientists, and engineers combine their knowledge and apply it towards improving water quality in  both rural and urban communities.  They are recognized internationally for their cutting-edge work, and their ability to get effective solutions to communities that need them.

PTCOG has expanded upon all of these building blocks, developing our own Stormwater SMART program and carrying out successful water quality restoration plans throughout the Triad region. PTCOG works in the four river basins of its region: the Yadkin, the Dan, the Deep, and the Haw Rivers.

 

 

Counties Under Current Drought Advisory:
	Moderate Drought: Alamance; Caswell; Guilford; Montgomery; Randolph; Rockingham; Abnormally Dry: Davidson; Davie; Forsyth; Stokes
Current NC Drought Conditions    Click here to view the North Carolina Drought Management Advisory Council homepage.