[Durham INC] Fw: Jordan Lake Rules: Showdown!

[Melissa Rooney]

It's a shame that we have to keep prodding citizens to repeatedly voice their concerns. But it looks like that's what it takes to make our gov't work for its citizens and not the special interests that pay for the amenities...

Please help get the Jordan Lake Rules passed by reading and acting on the email message below. I just wrote to my legislators via the link provided in the email below, and it was very, very easy. [Note: this is a separate, and bigger, issue from the Private Jordan Lake Survey saga in South Durham.]

Please do so now...the health of Jordan Lake (and its wildlife) depends on the input of the citizens who appreciate and drink from it.

Thanks!
Melissa


--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Haw River Assembly <info at hawriver.org> wrote:
From: Haw River Assembly <info at hawriver.org>
Subject: Jordan Lake Rules: Showdown!
To: mmr121570 at yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 10:21 PM




We Need Your Help Now--to get the
Jordan Lake rules passed by the NC Legislature!
 



Send a letter: 
 
 
Please
write your legislators today, and urge
them to support strong water quality protections for Jordan Lake
 
Click on this link to send a letter:http://ncconservationnetwork1.org/campaign/jordanlakerules

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



 
 
 
 
and
 
 
Join us at Clean Water
Lobby Day

 
Tuesday March 24 starting at 9 p.m. at the NC Legislature in
Raleigh.

 Join the Haw River
Assembly and activists from all over NC to meet our legislators and tell them
we need the Jordan Lake rules
 (reply to this email if
you are interested and
would like more information on times and carpools).
 
 



 
Background on the Jordan Lake Rules:

 Jordan Lake, located in
the Triangle, is a major recreational lake for the state, and drinking water
source for over 400,000 people. However, the lake is polluted with too much nitrogen and phosphorus that
come from sources upstream like wastewater treatment plants, farms, and runoff
from new and existing development. These pollutants cause algal blooms and high
alkalinity that violate water quality standards, harm fish and people, and make
the water more expensive to treat for drinking.
  
 Last year, after six years
of work, the state Environmental
Management Commission adopted a package of rules to cut pollution flowing into
the lake. Now that package is under attack. Several cities fear the cost
of controlling pollution from existing development, and have asked legislators
to weaken or eliminate that rule. Yet, the rule only requires them to take
‘feasible’ steps – and without those, Jordan Lake will never be healthy
again. 


For more background on Jordan Lake and
the rules to clean it up, please go to: http://www.ncconservationnetwork.org/issues/water_issues/jordan_lake 





  
    
      
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