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  Pasquotank River Watershed
The Pasquotank River watershed is a mixed rural and urban watershed in northeastern North Carolina that covers over 2,000 square miles.
In fact, one of the watershed sub-basins, in a part of the Pasquotank River watershed along the Outer Banks, has the greatest density of septic systems within the entire state and possibly within the country.
Assess on-going impacts of implementation of advanced on-site technologies on land use and development in the Pasquotank River watershed and identify technology-induced trends that are expected to have future impacts.
www.soil.ncsu.edu /about/news/Pasquotank.html   (2020 words)

  
 Pasquotank River Water Quality Program Report
Concerns in the Pasquotank River are from mostly non-point sources – runoff from farmland, hog farms, faulty septic tank systems, runoff from lawns, and stormwater runoff from Elizabeth City, the largest populated area on the River (NC DEHNR, 1997).
The Pasquotank River and the Albemarle Sound is part of the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuary System, which is one of the largest estuaries in the United States, second only to the Chesapeake Bay.
The average pH in the Pasquotank River in November and December of 1998 was in the 7.0 range.
www.ecsu.edu /ECSU/AcadDept/Geology/prwqp.htm   (7639 words)

  
 Pasquotank River. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
Pasquotank River (PAS-kwo-tank), c.50 mi/80 km long, NE N.C.; rises in Dismal Swamp, on line bet.
Camden and Pasquotank cos.; flows SE past Elizabeth City, to Albemarle Sound, forms estuary mouth (3 mi/4.8 km–5 mi/8 km wide) at Elizabeth City.
W branch of Intracoastal Waterway passes through estuary and Dismal Swamp Canal paralleling upper course of river.
www.bartleby.com /69/65/P01965.html   (99 words)

  
 The Pasquotank
Near the Narrows of the Pasquotank, where Elizabeth City is located, the river swings giddy oxbow bends, then straightens and spreads out for the last twelve miles of its journey to Albemarle Sound.
The Dismal Swamp Canal, one of the oldest operating canals in the country, couples the Pasquotank to the Elizabeth River in Virginia.
Land on either side of canal and river is low and flat, with vast cypress swamps and shrubby pocosins that may overlie peat deposits as much as twenty feet deep.
members.inteliport.net /~aea/pasqurivtxt.htm   (1172 words)

  
 Early Iveys in Pasquotank County, NC
Pasquotank deeds were copied in 1812 into new books,  with resulting possible errors of transcription.
I checked the loose Pasquotank deeds at the NC Archives that were not included in Bjorkman’s book.
21 ___ 1748           Henry and Thomas Palin to William Hixon, all of Pasquotank, 300 acres northeast side of Pasquotank River (the second half of the 600a referenced in the 1731 deed) being part of a 600 acre patent by Thomas Relfe grandfather to the said Henry and Thomas Palin…Cypress Branch…John Ivey’s line.
home.nc.rr.com /rwbaird/ivey/iveypasquotank.html   (1061 words)

  
 Congressman Walter B. Jones - Content by DexteraNet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
It is in the northeastern section of the State and is bounded by the state of Virginia, Albemarle Sound, and Pasquotank, Gates, and Currituck counties.
The Pasquotank River Yacht Club is located on the Camden Causeway in Camden County and they have a number of sailing events during the year.
Boat races are held on the Pasquotank River, as well as water ski competitions.
jones.house.gov /html/content.cfm?id=375   (405 words)

  
 Pasquotank River Basin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Pasquotank River Basin is located in the northeastern corner of North Carolina.
The counties contained in the Pasquotank River Basin are Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hyde, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington.
A significant increase in the population of this river basin is of concern since options for wastewater treatment and water supply are extremely limited.
www.water.ncsu.edu /paasqotk.html   (236 words)

  
 Camden County, North Carolina HISTORY ................................................................................. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Camden was settled around 1650 or perhaps even earlier, the first residents drifting down from Virginia and establishing themselves on both sides of the Pasquotank River.
When Camden County was still part of Pasquotank County, a ferry was used to cross the Pasquotank River.
Much more satisfactory were the windmills located on bluffs along the banks of the broad Pasquotank River.
www.albemarle-nc.com /camden/history   (193 words)

  
 mefford - pafg27 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
She died on 6 Aug 1882 in, Pasquotank Co., North Carolina and was buried in Pasquotank River,, Noca.
was born in 1785 in Pasquotank River,, Nc.
was born on 15 Feb 1786 in Pasquotank River,, Noca.
www.webpak.net /~cdm2/mefford/pafg27.htm   (787 words)

  
 NC State Soil Science, Septic Systems and Waste Management
Many rural and urban areas in the Pasquotank River watershed are growing so rapidly that they present technological challenges for maintenance of water quality and protection of the environment.
One demonstration community will be selected at some location in the Pasquotank River watershed based upon the interests of the homeowners to participate in the project and the potential for IWD technologies to solve an existing, critical water management problem.
The project team is currently in the North Meadows subdivision to collect information for developing the project work plan that must be submitted to EPA before the project can start.
www.soil.ncsu.edu /programs/septicsystem/pasquotank.php   (1674 words)

  
 North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program -- Draft Pasquotank River Basin Plan Presented at Final Scoping Meetings
The Draft Pasquotank River Basin Plan summarizes the scoping phase, outlines how the base maps and topography will be acquired, proposes engineering methods by which each flooding source reach will be studied, and describes the process and schedule for completing the map production.
The Pasquotank River Basin is located in the northeast corner of North Carolina's Coastal Plain region and covers approximately 3,700 square miles.
The Pasquotank River Basin is part of the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine system, one of the largest estuarine systems in the United States.
www.ncfloodmaps.com /NewsArchives/PRBP.htm   (957 words)

  
 Tyrrell County, NC - History
Elizabethtown, later renamed Columbia, was established on the banks of the Scuppernong River in 1793 and became the Tyrrell County seat in 1799.
The Secota villages of Mecopen along the Scuppernong River near present day Columbia and Tramaskecoc on the Alligator River near Gum Neck were shown on maps as early as 1585.
On the west side of the Scuppernong River, in present-day Tyrrell County, the Spruill family, whose patriarch was Dr. Godfrey Spruill, established Round About Plantation in the early eighteenth century (Davis 1963: 22-23).
www.visittyrrellcounty.com /AboutTC/History.htm   (1522 words)

  
 Cruising the Carolinas: North Carolina
Further down the Pungo River is Belhaven, (www.pamlico.com/belhaven/), home of the famous Belhaven buffet at River Forest Manor, (www.riverforestmanor.com/marina.htm).
The Neuse River is one of the widest rivers in the country and offers a good opportunity to sail or open up the throttle a bit as you head down toward Oriental, NC.
On the north side of the river entrance is Bald Head Island, (www.baldheadisland.com/), a resort community that can only be accessed by boat or ferry.
www.americanboating.org /cruisingcarolinas1.asp   (1899 words)

  
 River Barge: doc02220
North Carolina lifts swimming advisory ín Elizabeth City river Virginian Pilot, VA - 53 A swimming advisory for the Pasquotank River ín Elizabeth City was rescinded Friday afternoon - a week after ít was posted because of a sewage spill.
The body of Ed Ware was recovered from the Mississippi River at approximately 8:30 am, Thursday, according to a press release issued later Authorities recover Ed Ware's body from river Muscatine Journal Dateline Iowa DesMoinesRegister.com Missing man found ín the river Quad City Times Muscatine Journal - WHBF - all 14.
Council defends river waste dump Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 13 The move comes on the back of widespread criticism of the council's decision to allow Fonterra's Longburn plant to dump effluent ín the Manawatu River for 15..
www.nancybrightmusic.com /doc02220--River-Barge.html   (944 words)

  
 Pasquotank. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
Pasquotank (PAS-kwo-tank), county (289 sq mi/749 sq km; 1990 pop.
Wildlife Refuge in NW, E by Pasquotank R. SW in part by Little R. estuary.
Forested tidewater area, partly in Dismal Swamp (N).
www.bartleby.com /69/64/P01964.html   (112 words)

  
 NEIGHBORING WATERS THREATENED BY POLLUTION AND COASTAL GROWTH
Among freshwater streams and rivers, 41 percent were fully functioning, 34 percent were threatened but still in relatively good health, 10 percent were classified as impaired and 14 percent were not evaluated.
Elevated nutrient levels were found in parts of the Pasquotank River, the Alligator River, Tulls Creek, the North Landing River and Currituck Sound.
Controlling non-point source pollution - nutrients, sediment and toxins that wash into rivers from farms and lawns, land stripped of plants and hard surfaces like parking lots - was one of the report's major concerns.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970618/06180550.htm   (829 words)

  
 2001 Fellows
Raleigh, NC The robust redhorse (Moxostoma robustum) is a rare species of sucker fish native to Atlantic Slope Rivers in Georgia and the Carolinas (Jenkins and Freeman 1997; Deen 2001).
As a result, the Robust Redhorse Yadkin-Pee Dee River TWG was formed, a group that could problem solve and evaluate the various environmental factors that may be influencing the species.
One of the influences may be river instream flow regime, managed by CPandL and Alcoa Power Generating, Inc.-Yadkin Division whose hydroelectric power plants scheduled for relicensing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, begins in 2003.
www.ces.ncsu.edu /depts/agecon/nrli/2001Fellows.html   (5113 words)

  
 The Quaker Corner: Little River Quaker Graveyard
Little River meeting met at the house of Henry White from 1696 until it was laid down on 2-5-1705.
Little River is the boundary between Perquimans and Pasquotank Counties.
About half way between the beginning of the road and its end on Little River, the burial ground is located on the southern side of the road.
www.rootsweb.com /~quakers/littleriver.htm   (487 words)

  
 Pasquotank River Otters Masters Swim Team   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Pasquotank River Otters Masters Swim is a newly formed swim team.
The PRO Swim Team began in the mid 1980's as a community team and became the feeder team for the high school teams that were established as the swimmers grew up.
Pasquotank River Otters Masters Swim Team (PRO) is a chapter of the large state club, North Carolina Masters Swimming (NCMS).
www.ncmasters.org /pro.html   (431 words)

  
 North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Info
Bertie County in the Chowan and Roanoke River Basins
Forsyth County in the Yadkin and Roanoke River Basins
Watauga County in the New, Watauga and Yadkin River Basins
www.ncgs.state.nc.us /floodmap.html   (343 words)

  
 ECU BIOLOGIST SURVEYS WATER DISCHARGE IN ALBEMARLE SOUND
An ECU biologist has been hired by Pasquotank and Currituck counties to conduct a three-year study of its water treatment plant.
An $870,000 contract with the counties of Pasquotank and Currituck will enableRulifson and his research team to gather information about the waters and anticipate how the growing demand for more treatment plants in the region could affect the environment.
Plans are in the works to build at least two more water treatment plants in Pasquotank and Currituck counties and officials across the region want to anticipate what affect the discharge from more treatment plants might have on the environment.
www.ecu.edu /cs-admin/news/releases/2005/08/081505ECUbiologist.cfm   (622 words)

  
 Take The Quize
The Lumber River is a State Natural and Scenic River (eighty-one miles is also designated a National Wild and Scenic River).
The New River in Allegheny, Ashe and Watauga counties is one of the world's oldest rivers.
While the Savannah River basin originates in North Carolina, the mainstem of the Savannah River begins below Lake Hartwell in South Carolina, which is located at the confluence of the Tugaloo and Seneca Rivers.
www.ncstormwater.org /pages/takequize.html   (854 words)

  
 North Carolina - Pasquotank River Preserve
The Pasquotank River forms the boundary between Camden and Pasquitank Counties and offers paddlers a scenic, undiscovered destination.
The southern portion of the river below Elizabeth City is tidally influenced, while the river's upstream section winds through a mile-wide wooded floodplain.
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) acquired the 406-acre Jacobson Tract along the Pasquotank River through a purchase from the Tidewater Jewish Foundation and a donation from Marc Jacobson.
www.nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/northcarolina/preserves/art10743.html   (312 words)

  
 Great Dismal Swamp History George Ramsey
The Dismal Swamp Canal transits southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina connecting the waters of Hampton Roads, Elizabeth River and Deep Creek in the north with Joyce’s (Joy’s) Creek, Turner Cut, Pasquotank River and Albemarle Sound to the south.
The Calendar of State papers hailed in the year 1805: “a junction has been affected betwixt the waters of Elizabeth River and Pasquotank.....
Thus, stone lift-lock building was introduced to tidewater in 1819.  Over the next dozen years at least seven beautifully cut stone locks were built at the ends and along the canal.
dismalswamp.net /index_files/page0009.html   (1063 words)

  
 Elizabeth City, NC: Pasquotank Waterfront ...
The narrows of the Pasquotank River is that location where the Pasquotank River narrows to less than one-fifth of a mile.
In 1764, a law designated ''The Narrows'' of the Pasquotank River as an inspection station for ''hemp, flax, flax seed, pork, beef, rice, flour, indigo, butter, tar, pitch, turpentine, staves, leading, lumber and shingles.
In 1793 a charter was granted by the General Assembly to form a town at the Narrows of Pasquotank River to be known as Reding.
www.elizcity.com /history   (463 words)

  
 Field Trip Earth
This is one of five river basins that drains eastern North Carolina and is named after the Pasquotank River.
The Alligator River is the first of many estuaries encountered on this journey.
On the east side of the river lies the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge (ARNWR), one of the last strongholds of endangered species such as the red wolf (Canis rufus), Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides), and the red cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis).
www.fieldtripearth.org /print-article.xml?id=700   (2357 words)

  
 Whitehead
Etheridge in Pasquotank River, N.C. On 10 April, she made prizes of schooners Comet and J.
On 12 July 1864, she ascended the Scuppernong River to Columbia, N.C., and burned a bridge used to transport supplies to Southern troops at Plymouth.
Whitehead and steamers Thomas Colyer and Massasoit joined in an expedition up the Chowan River, N.C., on 28 July 1864, capturing steamer Arrow and a large quantity of cotton and tobacco on 29 July at Gates-ville, N.C. Whitehead proceeded to the Norfolk Navy Yard for repairs on 20 August 1864.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/w7/whitehead.htm   (668 words)

  
 NC Division of Water Quality: Biological Assessment Unit
Tar River Basin -- the entire basin above Rocky Mount, NC, except for the lower southeastern one-half of Halifax County and the extreme eastern portion of Nash County.
The Index is undergoing revisions for the Upper Coastal Plain (Chowan, Neuse, Pasquotank, Roanoke, Tar, and White Oak River basins), the Lower Coastal Plain (Cape Fear and Lumber River basins), and the Sandhills (Cape Fear, Lumber, and Yadkin River basins).
Numerous requests are received from state and federal agencies, private consultants, and academic institutions regarding the NCIBI scores and ratings of a fish communities for a particular county, watershed, or stream at a specific road crossing.
www.esb.enr.state.nc.us /IBIrate.htm   (464 words)

  
 JENNINGS/Relfe/Norton Genealogy
River /s/ William Berkley 787 pg.265 Patrick Odaniel 12 January 1718 80 acres in Pasquotank precinct, THOMAS RELF and percosan branch /s/ C. Eden, T. Pollock, F. Jones, Richd.
No doubt the messenger crossed the three intervening rivers, the Creeks and swamps with all possible dispatch, and the physician hastened to attend the distinguished patient, but when he arrived, Colonel Reed was dead and buried ‘the day before the doctor arrived.’ (It was a long, tedious trip to and from Edenton, then.
Governor Reed was a member of the governor’s Council 1712 and President of the Council and Governor of the Province of North Carolina in 1722/24, and thereafter continued as a memberof the Council until his death in 1728.
www.geocities.com /heartland/plains/6598/jennings.htm   (11923 words)

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