direct link to this page: www.ncsu.edu/WECO/rocky
Studies and Reports
[chronological order]
- Upper Rocky River Local Watershed Plan Preliminary Findings Report. February 2005. NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program [prepared by Tetra Tech, Inc.]
- Upper Rocky River Local Watershed Plan Detailed Assessment and Targeting of Management Report. June 2005. NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program [prepared by Tetra Tech, Inc.]
- Cape Fear River Basinwide Water Quality Plan. October 2005. NC Division of Water Quality.
- Tick Creek Aquatic Taxa Survey May 2009. John Alderman and Joseph Alderman
- Rocky River/Tick Creek Watersheds Situation Assessment. October 2009. NCSU WECO
- Tick Creek Factsheet of the NC EEP 2005 Local Watershed Plan. 2009. NCSU WECO
- Rocky River Subbasin Aquatic Taxa Surveys. July 2010. John Alderman
- A Comprehensive Conservation Plan for Chatham County. March 2011. Chatham Conservation Partnership
- Tick Creek geodatabase. April 2012. NCSU WECO
- Tick Creek Watershed Plan. August 2012. NCSU WECO
- Collaborative Restoration and Protection of High Quality Resources In Tick Creek And Rocky River Watersheds. April 2012. 319 grant final report. NCSU WECO.
- Entire report
- Report without appendices
- Appendices only
- Rocky River Groundwater Assessment, NC Division of Water Quality. 2012
Background
Local interest in protecting the high quality natural resources in the Rocky River watershed of the Cape Fear Basin is high. Various groups are are actively working on water quality protection and improvement .
The County contacted WECO and NRLI in late 2007 to facilitate an appointed stakeholder group to discuss how to move forward with protection of the Rocky River Subbasin. With feedback from the group and additional agricultural stakeholders, partners obtained an EPA 319 proposal, which was granted and began in December 2008. A Watershed Situation Assessment was conducted to help determine how to move forward.
The project goals included :
- improve coordination & collaboration between all effected stakeholders in the Rocky River
- leverage resources more effectively
- use the NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program 2005 report as a foundation to identify and prioritizing projects
- build on local SWCD and NRCS efforts to restore the impaired Tick Creek watershed
- conduct an aquatic taxa inventory
- develop a geodatabase for storing and analyzing data
- evaluate land use/land cover of Tick Creek watershed to better characterize its important biological community, reasons for impairment, and most effective strategies for improvement.
- implement an agricultural and an urban BMP to improve water quality
