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Storm Drain Stenciling 

 Targeted in 68 Cities 



In August, North Carolinians will be 

 pounding the pavement — and then paint- 

 ing it — with educational messages to 

 keep storm drains clean. 



It's all part of a stenciling campaign, 

 sponsored in part by the Year of the 

 Coast, to make people aware that storm 

 drains flow to the Albemarle and Pamlico 

 sounds, the Cape Fear River and other 

 estuaries. 



City managers and volunteer groups 

 in 68 cities from Wilmington to Greens- 

 boro have been targeted to join the state- 

 wide campaign. Volunteers have been 

 recruited from Girl and Boy Scouts, civic 

 and 4-H clubs, N.C. Big Sweep, Keep 

 America Beautiful programs and Stream 

 Watch groups. 



These groups will share 550 stencils 

 custom-made for the particular coastal 

 waters that their cities drain into. The 

 stencils and other supplies will be distrib- 

 uted through city officials, who will also 

 approve storm drains for painting. 



The following cities were chosen for 

 the first round of stenciling. Organizer 

 Barbara Doll, Sea Grant's coastal water 

 quality specialist, hopes to expand the 

 effort inland next year. 



• Albemarle Sound 



Pasquotank River Basin: Columbia, 

 Elizabeth City, Hertford. 



Chowan River Basin: Ahoskie, 

 Edenton, Rich Square. 



Roanoke River Basin: Eden, 

 Henderson, Kernersville, Plymouth, 

 Reidsville, Roanoke Rapids, Roxboro, 

 Williamston, Windsor, Yanceyville. 



• Pamlico Sound 



Tar-Pamlico River Basin: Belhaven, 

 Greenville, Louisburg, Nashville, Oxford, 

 Rocky Mount, Tarboro, Washington. 



Neuse River Basin: Bayboro, Cary, 

 Durham, Garner, Goldsboro, Havelock, 

 Kinston, New Bern, Oriental, Raleigh, 

 Smithfield, Wilson. 



• Cape Fear River 



Cape Fear River Basin: Asheboro, 

 Burlington, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, 



Clinton, Dunn, Elizabethtown, Fayette - 

 ville, Graham, Greensboro, High Point, 

 Rose Hill, Sanford, Siler City, Southern 

 Pines, Southport, Wallace, Wilmington. 



• Other Sounds 



Atlantic Beach, Beaufort, Emerald 

 Isle, Jacksonville, Morehead City, 

 Swansboro, Carolina Beach, Kill Devil 

 Hills, Kitty Hawk, Long Beach, Manteo, 

 Nags Head, Surf City, Wrightsville 

 Beach. 



In addition to the Year of the Coast 

 support, funding has been provided by 

 the N.C. Division of Coastal Manage- 

 ment and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser- 

 vice. For more information, write Doll at 

 N.C. Sea Grant, Box 8208, N.C. State 

 University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208. Or 

 call 919/515-5287. 



Dr. Spence 



Goes To Washington 



N.C. Sea Grant's marine education 

 specialist will be sharing her talents with 

 the National Sea Grant College Program 

 office in Washington, D.C., beginning in 

 September. Lundie Spence will help ener- 

 gize educational projects within the Sea 

 Grant community and work with educa- 

 tors from other divisions under Sea 

 Grant's parent organization, the National 

 Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- 

 tion. These include the National Estuarine 

 Research Reserve and the National Ma- 

 rine Sanctuary programs. 



With greater emphasis on national 

 and regional educational programs, the 

 national office needed help with its hu- 

 man resources program. Spence will fit 

 that bill, working with projects such as 

 Operation Pathfinder and the Global 

 Change Project, a program that teaches 

 nonformal educators about changes in sea 

 level, carbon dioxide and ozone. 



Spence will return to her berth in 

 North Carolina in March. 



Splish Splash Again 



There's a renewed pool of resources 

 for environmental educators. Splish 

 Splash, N.C. Big Sweep's K-2 educa- 

 tional activity guide, has been reprinted 



and is being offered again to Tar Heel 

 teachers. 



The 44-page manual provides ac- 

 tivities for young stewards on recycling, 

 animal entanglement and plastics in 

 marine and aquatic environments. 



The reprint of the manual, first pub- 

 lished in 1992, was made possible by 

 funding from CP&L, Duke Power Co., 

 ITW Hi-Cone and the N.C. Division of 

 Environmental Management's Water 

 Quality Section, which is within the 

 state's Department of Environment, 

 Health and Natural Resources. 



To order, send $2 for postage and 

 handling to Big Sweep, P.O. Box 550, 

 Raleigh, NC 27602. Out-of-state orders 

 are $3. 



Kudos to 



Sea Grant Scientist 



N.C. Sea Grant researcher JoAnn 

 Burkholder recently received a 1994 

 Outstanding Research Award from the 

 N.C. State University Alumni Associa- 

 tion. The association recognized 

 Burkholder for her devotion and dedica- 

 tion to research. 



Burkholder is part of the Sea Grant 

 research team that discovered the toxic 

 dinoflagellate implicated in some fish 

 kills in North Carolina estuaries and in 

 other states (see story, page 19). She also 

 has researched the effects of nutrients on 

 submerged aquatic vegetation. 



In addition to her research work, 

 Burkholder serves on the N.C. Marine 

 Fisheries Commission and the Coastal 

 Futures Committee appointed by Gov. 

 Jim Hunt to study the state's coastal 

 management practices. 



For her undergraduate studies, 

 Burkholder majored in zoology and 

 animal ecology at Iowa State University. 

 She received her master's degree in 

 aquatic biology at the University of 

 Rhode Island and her doctorate in bo- 

 tanical limnology at Michigan State 

 University. 



"JoAnn is an outstanding scientist," 

 says N.C. Sea Grant Director B.J. 

 Copeland. "She is constantly pushing to 



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