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  Haw River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Haw River is a tributary of the Cape Fear River, approximately 110 mi (177 km) long, in north central North Carolina in the United States.
It rises in the piedmont country, in northwest Guilford County northwest of Greensboro, It flows East, passing north of Greensboro, then SSE past the town of Haw River just east of Burlington.
Haw River is also a small town of approximately 2,000 people that sits on the banks of the Haw River near Burlington, Graham, Mebane, and Green Level.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haw_River   (163 words)

  
 Haw River, North Carolina -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Haw River is a town located in (Click link for more info and facts about Alamance County, North Carolina) Alamance County, North Carolina.
Haw River is located at 36°5'43" North, 79°21'28" West (36.095324, -79.357841).
Out of the total population, 15.2% of those under the age of 18 and 10.2% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Ha/Haw_River,_North_Carolina.htm   (451 words)

  
 The Haw River Festival 2000
The Haw River Festival is a traveling, solar-powered, environmental education extravaganza for children and communities in the Haw River Watershed.
The Haw River Festival crew are folks from the community including environmental educators, scientists, storytellers, musicians, artists, parents, woodsmen and activists.
Haw River Festival founder and storyteller Louise Kessel, was on hand selling art on the hill.
www.carrboro.com /hawriverfestival.html   (462 words)

  
 Haw River’s Boschini Named Principal of the Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Haw River is a Title 1 school with a large number of factors that put students at risk of academic failure, but the school was recognized for achieving high growth on last year’s state end-of-grade testing.
Haw River was also one of the 13 local schools to made Adequate Yearly Progress under the federal No Child Left Behind standards begun last year.
Haw River’s percentage of students proficient in reading and math has risen more than 15 percentage points from 58.6% in 2000-2001 to 74.0% in 2002-2003.
www.abss.k12.nc.us /system/news/2003-04/poy.html   (447 words)

  
 UNC-TV ONLINE: I.Q. Science, Nature, Technology and the World Around Us:Health of the Haw River
Named after the Sissipahaw Indians, the Haw River originates in a small spring in Forsyth County and flows to Jordan Lake through the Cape Fear River Basin, one of the 17 major river basins in North Carolina.
Despite its polluted state, the Haw River is healthier today than it was during the era of the textile mills, when a thick white foam, carrying waste from the mills, floated down the river daily.
The water is so filthy that the Haw River qualified for federal funding for water quality restoration and failed a water purity test 7 months in a row in the Reidsville area.
www.unctv.org /iq/hawriver   (524 words)

  
 Haw River Above Bynum Dam by Canoe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Finally, at two miles north of the dam you run into a wall of rock across the river, which is the end of the pool.
The Haw is the first place where I ever saw this primitive-looking plant in the wild.
Access to the river will be a little more complicated during construction and afterward when the north and south lanes are divided.
www.duke.edu /~cwcook/tbg/hawcanoe.html   (873 words)

  
 Specific Identification of Organic Pollutants in Haw River Water using Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry
The Haw River is one of the most industrialized rivers in the Piedmont region of North Carolina.
In spite of the numerous direct and indirect wastewater discharges to the Haw River, little is known concerning levels of synthetic organic pollution.
The objective of this study was to investigate organic pollution in the Haw River utilizing current advanced methods for extraction and concentration of aqueous trace organic pollutants combined with identification by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry.
www.ncsu.edu /ncsu/wrri/reports/report206.html   (891 words)

  
 Haw River Assembly
The Haw River Assembly is a non-profit citizens' group founded in 1982 to restore and protect the Haw River and Jordan Lake.
The Haw River is a valuable natural resource; the headwaters of the Cape Fear River Basin.
Our goals are to promote environmental education, conservation and pollution prevention; to speak as a voice for the river in the public arena; and to put into peoples' hands the tools and the knowledge they need to be effective guardians of the river.
www.hawriver.org   (777 words)

  
 Haw River - NC
The Lower Haw River is short run and rain dependant but it is fun at the right level.
River right is good at higher levels but go more to the middle for the "Maze" at lower levels.
When the river is running, there are usually a good number of local boaters that you can run with.
www.paddling.net /places/showReport.html?979   (520 words)

  
 Haw River State Park Project
Through its New Parks for a New Century initiative, the NC Division of Parks and Recreation identified the upper Haw River as one of 47 sites in North Carolina worthy of becoming new units of the state parks system.
The study area lies in the Upper Haw River in Guilford and Rockingham counties, with a branch up Mears Fork.
The area around the river from just upstream of the US 220 crossing to the US 29 crossing was included in the study area.
www.ils.unc.edu /parkproject/explore/harinew.html   (1462 words)

  
 UNC-TV ONLINE: I.Q. Science, Nature, Technology and the World Around Us:Health of the Haw River
In addition to members of the Haw River Assembly and several wildlife conservationists, the students interviewed the mayors of Reidsville and Cary and residents who live along the Haw River.
What they found was a dying river that once was clear and potable to the Sissipahaw Indians who drank out of its streams.
"The Haw is a river that once supported abundant plant and animal life, and from our perspective, it’s dying from misuse and abuse," Linden said.
www.unctv.org /iq/hawriver/btscenes.html   (479 words)

  
 Haw River, North Carolina (Cities)
Haw River is located in Alamance County between Burlington and Hillsborough along US Hwy 70 on the banks of the Haw River near Mebane and Graham.
Named for the river, which was named for the fl haw bushes growing on its banks.
Haw River is part of the Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point metro area.
www.ohwy.com /nc/h/hawriver.htm   (108 words)

  
 The Haw River Trail Access areas along the Haw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Parking is limited near the river and on the roadside.
Unsupervised children are extremely vulnerable to the dangers surrounding rivers.
The Haw River varies in depth and is full of randomly placed submerged obstacles that can kill you; Use extreme caution.
www.hawrivertrail.org /access.htm   (185 words)

  
 Circle Stories: Home/Not Home; Haw River, North Carolina
And I begin to worry that the Haw River may not be a river anymore, but just part of this lake.
The word 'haw' means river in their language.
Across the river on the eastern shore, two Bald Eagles leave their perch in the high branches and glide down stream.
www.stujenks.com /stories/home_haw.html   (1433 words)

  
 The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC): HARD-WORKING HAW RIVER SERVES THE TRIAD.(TRAVEL)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It springs from the ground in northeast Forsyth County and flows through the heart of the area - past Oak Ridge and Summerfield, Reidsville, Altamahaw, Burlington and Graham.
By the time it passes the dam at Saxapahaw, in southeast Alamance County, the river that began as a trickle is rocky and wide.
That's where I live: in Saxapahaw, one of the old mill villages that dot the Haw from Ossipee in northwest Alamance County to Bynum in Chatham County.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:61807326&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (205 words)

  
 American Whitewater - River Reach #2706   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Haw, NC Highway 64 to Jordan Reservoir (Gabriel's Bend)
This section of the Haw is the most popular run in the Raleigh/Durham area of the Piedmont, where a geological phenomenon called the “fall line” has created rapids in a dozen or so local creeks and rivers.
At high flows the river is running through the trees and numerous islands create a network of passageways with plenty of strainer hazards.
www.americanwhitewater.org /rivers/id/2706   (1095 words)

  
 American Whitewater - River Reach #1084
The take-out for the Middle Haw is on river right on the downstream side of the Hwy 64 bridge.
Recently this coffer dam was the scene of a rescue (by brave and true paddlers!) where a canoe was broached on a strainer.
Far and away the safest place to put on the river for this section is the foot bridge in Bynum.
www.americanwhitewater.org /rivers/id/1084   (508 words)

  
 Haw River News
Local news for Haw River, NC continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
In September, the Alamance tourism bureau began marketing the wineries as the Haw River Wine Trail.
It was a typical drowsy morning along the banks of the Haw River.
www.topix.net /city/haw-river-nc   (893 words)

  
 Haw River Canoe Access   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Overview: Birding along the river trail can be great, especially in spring migration.
Turn left just after the bridge over the Haw (watch for a brown sign labelled "Haw River Canoe Access").
I've never birded this area in fall or winter, but it ought to be good in those seasons, too.
www.duke.edu /~cwcook/tbg/hawriver.html   (102 words)

  
 Haw River Critter Crossing: The Environment of Clyde Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Haw River Critter Crossing: The Environment of Clyde Jones
John's Museum of Art plans to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Haw River Critter Crossing: The Environment of Clyde Jones in a manner most appropriate for this "outsider" artist who is beloved by children throughout the region: the exhibition's reception will double as the museum's popular Annual Family Day Celebration.
During his long convalescence from the injury, he began cutting and assembling roots and stumps into animals, or "critters." His painting, which began in 1987, typically incorporates the heavy application of house and car paint onto plywood and discarded doors and depicts the animals and wildlife of Bynum and the Haw River.
www.tfaoi.com /aa/1aa/1aa539.htm   (664 words)

  
 Haw River Tackle
Since 1976, Haw River Tackle has been supplying the highest quality fishing lures and accessories to fishermen around the world.
And it's that commitment to the sport that has earned us respect from the tournament circles to the back-yard pond.
Haw River Tackle, Inc., PO Box 2057, 1523 Bowman Ave., Burlington, NC 27216
www.hrtackle.com /home.html   (87 words)

  
 Open Directory - Regional: North America: United States: North Carolina: Localities: H: Haw River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Haw River Elementary School - Serves grades K-5.
Haw River Flooring - Carpet, vinyl, hardwood and laminate floor coverings for commercial and residential building.
Haw River Historical Association - Promotes and preserves the town's historical significance.
dmoz.org /Regional/North_America/United_States/North_Carolina/Localities/H/Haw_River   (131 words)

  
 Find Used Cars: in Haw River, North Carolina
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www.autoextra.com /cars/south/state+nc/h/city+haw-river   (355 words)

  
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This site is intended to accompany the UNC-TV program "IQ: The Haw River" created by UNC Chapel Hill students.
Sources of pollution and the way they enter the river is explained.
As dirt, clay and rocks enter the river, animals and plants are affected.
www.ibiblio.org /hawriver   (97 words)

  
 Haw River Daytona Gas - Haw River, NC, 27258-9644 - Citysearch
Haw River Daytona Gas - Haw River, NC, 27258-9644 - Citysearch
714 E Main St Haw River, NC 27258-9644
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 Best Western Graham Inn - Haw River - Best Western Graham Inn Reviews - TripAdvisor
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 Haw River North Carolina vacation rentals homes condo rental condos home villas guide.
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www.innlog.com /lodging/NC/HawRiver_V.html   (95 words)

  
 Haw River North Carolina Hotels, Motels and Area Attractions
Haw River North Carolina Hotels, Motels and Area Attractions
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