The Lower Cape Fear River Program is a large-scale water quality and environmental assessment program covering the Cape Fear River Estuary and a large portion of the lower Cape Fear River watershed.
A collaboration of academia, government, industry, and the public, the program is located at and administered by the Center for Marine Science at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Program objectives are to develop an understanding of the fundamental scientific processes shaping and controlling the ecology of the Cape Fear River system and provide a mechanism for information exchange and public education. Numerous physical, chemical, and biological measurements are collected at thirty-four different sites on a regular basis so biologists, chemists, physicists, and geologists will be able to understand freshwater, estuarine, and nearshore marine processes in the Cape Fear River basin. This research will complement and refine the current basinwide management plans being developed by the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Currently, a program in the middle Cape Fear River basin is performing similar monitoring activities and a program in the upper Cape Fear River basin is in the planning stages. With the commencement of monitoring in all three basins, regulators will have comprehensive scientific based information with which to form educated decisions regarding activities in the Cape Fear River basin. Why is the Cape Fear River Important? |
Monitoring & Research • Station Map • Station Descriptions • Monitoring Parameters • Fin Fish Monitoring Environmental Current Events • Advisory Board & Technical Committee Info • TMDL Information Cape Fear River Basin Coalitions Monitoring Database Technical Committee Related Web Sites
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