settle out or leach into the soil for treatment. 

 Low "check dams" placed across the swale 

 can slow water even further. 



Permeable pavements, which combine 

 concrete or plastic grids with sand, rock and 

 soil, allow water to pass through them and 

 seep into the ground. Though they are not as 

 strong as conventional roadways, permeable 

 pavements can easily be adopted for use in 

 overflow parking lots, driveways and 

 emergency lanes. 



Hope forthe Future 



Tom Singleton, who attended a 

 Jumping Run community design workshop 

 in September, is eager to get involved with 

 the project. Singleton owns and operates 

 Water's Edge RV Park, a 13-acre camp- 

 ground on Bogue Sound. "Every time the 

 shellfish beds are open, my people like to go 

 out there and look for clams," Singleton 



TOP: From the bridge at Barnesfield, Jumping Run Creek flows south between bulkheads 

 to Bogue Sound. 



CENTER: Water leaving Water's Edge RVPark flows through these cattails near 

 Jumping Run Creek. 



BOTTOM: Tom Singleton hopes the Jumping Run project will help him enhance the wetlands 

 encircling his campground. 



says. "It's part of the campground. I'd love 

 to see it be better." 



Like many other coastal residents, 

 Singleton has a ditch on his property that 

 drains into a swamp alongside Jumping 

 Run. Singleton hopes the restoration project 

 will help him enhance the wetlands on his 

 property. "One of the things they said at the 

 workshop is that you can have a sick 

 wetland," he says. "If I'm going to have 

 wetlands on my property, I want them to be 

 the best ones around." 



Preston Pate, director of the N.C. 

 Division of Marine Fisheries, is also quick 

 to praise the restoration project. Jumping 

 Run Creek runs through his back yard, and 

 he recommended the watershed for the 

 project "because it lent itself very neatly to 

 the experimental phase of the planning. . . . 

 It's a real diverse but discrete system to 

 work with." 



With 18 percent of the state's shellfish 

 beds considered permanently closed, 

 communities up and down the coast will be 

 tracking the outcomes of the Jumping Run 

 Shellfish Restoration Project. "There's the 

 potential for applying that technique to other 

 areas if it proves to work here," Pate says. 



If the project works as planned, 

 Jumping Run could see reduced bacterial 

 levels by the end of this shellfishing season. 

 In spring, the CCEC will be planting 

 wetland vegetation and installing bird- 

 houses. Other landowners will be tending 

 rain gardens and grooming grassy swales. 



If all goes well, when the holidays roll 

 around next year, homeowners along 

 Jumping Run Creek may be making oyster 

 stuffing and clam chowder from shellfish 

 gathered in their own back yards. □ 



For more information on Jumping Run 

 Shellfish Restoration Project, call Barbara 

 Doll at 919/515-5287. To get a copy of the 

 award-winning Coastal Water Quality 

 Handbook which describes runoff, pollution 

 and water quality in greater detail, call the 

 North Carolina Sea Grant office at 919/515- 

 2454, or mail a check for $6 to North 

 Carolina Sea Grant, NC State University, 

 Box 8605, Raleigh, NC 27695-8605. Write 

 UNC-SG-97-04 in the memo line. 



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