A swimming advisory still exists in Banks Channel due to conditions unsafe for swimming. Does this concern you? Do you swim in Banks Channel? What can be done to improve our water quality?
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The frequency of the swimming advisories has me concerned. I don't swim in the banks channel but get in the ocean a lot. If the water is unsafe in the banks channel, the water in the ocean can't be that great, either.
Wrightsville Beach, Wilmington, and New Hanover county need to work together to solve our sewage woes. I wish I had a solution but am not an engineer and don't know the engineering facts of the problem. They could halt development or raise rates to help fund a solution to the current problems.
On an individual level, each one of us needs to take responsibility of our own trash. That includes anywhere in the area and also includes pet waste. Basically, everything around here ends up in the Cape Fear River, inland, and ocean waterways. Take a drive on Wrightsville Ave between Hooker Rd and Greenville Ave and look at the amount of the trash. This is right at the edge of the creek and after rains in ends up in there.
If people don't care now and look for a solution things will get so bad that they will be tough to reverse.
I am seriously concerned with the recent decline in the areas water quality. Many of us have grown up using this area to swim, sail, ski, wakeboard, etc., and declining water quality puts all of this at risk. Our local government MUST do something to ensure that the sewage problems are a thing of the past. I am appaled that this was ever allowed to happen.
I am unaware of the ammount of money it will cost to update the sewage system, (i am sure its a lot) but I am confident that it will be well worth the money. These waterways are the reason we all come to the beach, if they arent clean enough for use, WB is NOT the same place.
Our waterway woes are a sympton of overdevelopment without proper infrastructure to protect the very reason we all love this area - shame on our local leaders.
Also, does the Coast Guard check up on the transient boat population that moors in the channel for open seacocks to their holding tanks?
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The frequency of the swimming advisories has me concerned. I don't swim in the banks channel but get in the ocean a lot. If the water is unsafe in the banks channel, the water in the ocean can't be that great, either.
Wrightsville Beach, Wilmington, and New Hanover county need to work together to solve our sewage woes. I wish I had a solution but am not an engineer and don't know the engineering facts of the problem. They could halt development or raise rates to help fund a solution to the current problems.
On an individual level, each one of us needs to take responsibility of our own trash. That includes anywhere in the area and also includes pet waste. Basically, everything around here ends up in the Cape Fear River, inland, and ocean waterways. Take a drive on Wrightsville Ave between Hooker Rd and Greenville Ave and look at the amount of the trash. This is right at the edge of the creek and after rains in ends up in there.
If people don't care now and look for a solution things will get so bad that they will be tough to reverse.
I am seriously concerned with the recent decline in the areas water quality. Many of us have grown up using this area to swim, sail, ski, wakeboard, etc., and declining water quality puts all of this at risk. Our local government MUST do something to ensure that the sewage problems are a thing of the past. I am appaled that this was ever allowed to happen.
I am unaware of the ammount of money it will cost to update the sewage system, (i am sure its a lot) but I am confident that it will be well worth the money. These waterways are the reason we all come to the beach, if they arent clean enough for use, WB is NOT the same place.
I was afraid to swim this Summer.
Our waterway woes are a sympton of overdevelopment without proper infrastructure to protect the very reason we all love this area - shame on our local leaders.
Also, does the Coast Guard check up on the transient boat population that moors in the channel for open seacocks to their holding tanks?
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