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Sound Rivers launches new podcast
Education, Environmental, Neuse River Watershed, Sound Rivers, Tar-Pamlico Watershed, Water
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Posted on April 18th, 2024
8/30/24, 3:35 PM Sound Rivers launches new podcast - Sound Rivers
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Sound Rivers has joined the podcasting craze, launching its NEW podcast, “Sound Rivers:
Riverkeeping Tales from the Neuse & Tar-Pamlico.” Join podcast host Vail Rumley (also Sound
Rivers’ communications director) on a journey through stories from the eld, from the lab and
even from the courtroom — all the work Sound Rivers’ Riverkeepers and sta do to keep your
rivers shable, swimmable and drinkable for all.
Each month we’ll have a new episode, tackling a wide array of issues, from pollution
investigations to green stormwater infrastructure, climate change to bad legislation. If it impacts
8/30/24, 3:35 PM Sound Rivers launches new podcast - Sound Rivers
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your rivers, we’ll be talking about it!
“Sound Rivers: Riverkeeping Tales from the Neuse & Tar-Pamlico” is now available on Apple
Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music (just search for the title).
Episode 1
Sound Rivers: Riverkeeping Tales from the Neuse & Tar-Pamlico
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The Story of Blounts Creek
00:00 |34:46
This is the story of Blounts Creek, a pristine, peaceful tributary of the Pamlico River in Beaufort
County, North Carolina, and the decade-long battle to prevent a mining company from destroying
it.
In 2011, environmental nonprot Sound Rivers’ sta discovered plans for a limestone mine —
plans that included using Blounts Creek to discharge up to 12 million gallons of fresh water into
the brackish headwaters of the creek every day.
At risk was an entire ecosystem.
In this episode, you’ll hear about the grassroots movement founded to protect the creek, its
habitats, sheries and wildlife for future generations and the legal battle that would start on the
banks of the creek and end in the highest court in North Carolina.
Featuring Blounts Creek resident Bob Daw, one of the founders of Save Blounts Creek, and
former Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper, now Sound Rivers executive director, Heather Deck, the Story of
Blounts Creek takes on decisions made by the state to potentially destroy what it’s meant to
protect, in direct conict with the Clean Water Act; the eorts by a giant corporation to deprive
North Carolina residents of access to the courts; and how a community continues to rise up
against what could be a devastating wrong.
Did you like this podcast? Help us continue the ght for Blounts Creek by donating today!
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