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Onslow County Center, 4024 Richlands Hwy., Jacksonville, NC 28540, (910) 455-5873, Fax (910) 455-0977 Brunswick County Center, P.O. Box 109, Bolivia, NC 28422, (910) 253-2610, Fax (910) 253-2612 |
Test your knowledge with these environmental questions:
1. North Carolina has how many main watershed
basins?
a. 15 b. 16 c. 17 d. 18
2. Which of the following is the largest basin?
a. Neuse b. Cape Fear c. French Broad d. Watauga
3. What is the name of the basin in which you live?
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4. Eastern NC has what are known as "brown water
systems". WHY is the water brown or "tea-colored"?
a. sediment b. tannic acids c. hog waste d. pollution
5. According to EPA, the pollutant of greatest
concern in North Carolina is...?
a. sediment b. tannic acids c. hog waste d. nitrate
6. Each individual person uses approximately how
many gallons of water per day?
a. 10 gallons b. 20 gallons c. 50 gallons d. 75 gallons
7. In which "room" does most of the water use occur?
a. bathroom b. laundry room c. yard d. kitchen
8. What percentage of the population in NC
utilizes an on-site wastewater treatment system (aka "septic system")?
a. 20% b. 30% c. 40% d. 50%
9. Nitrate in ground water can come from which
source(s)?
a. fertilizer b. septic systems c. animals d. all of them
10. One inch of rain on one acre of land is equal
to how many gallons of water?
a. 10,563 gals b. 19,498 gals c. 27,154 gals d. 36,244 gals
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