Catawba
River Basin
What is the name of your river basin?
Where is the River Basin located in North Carolina?(Headwaters & Mouth)
How many miles of streams and rivers are included in the Basin?
How many people live in the Basin?
Describe the River Basin.
A) Blue Ridge Mountains
Pisgah National forest
Linville Falls
Lake James
Lake Norman
B) A non-point source solution is the sediments for storm water run-off. The sediments from construction run off through the water into the river basin. Next is muddy water. The muddy water clogs it up and makes it have issues to flow through.
C) A point source solution is the runoff of contaminants of eroded soil. It comes off fields and houses into the water. Human and animal wastes is another. The humans drop garbage, and animals use the bathroom, it falls into the water and such, clogging up the water flow process.
D) A solution to these issues is to make sure the construction workers you hire are good with practices to keep out water away from their work.
E) Keeping fertilizer, pesticides, and yard and animal waste out of the streets and storm drains.