The Town of Cornelius and Mecklenburg County will attempt to restore a "critically impaired" creek that feeds into the primary water reservoir for 800,000 people in the region. McDowell Creek Cove on Moutain Island Lake has shown "a significant decline in water quality" over the years because of the flow of nutrients and sediment from the development boom in the Huntersville and Cornelius areas, according to Cornelius' state grant application.
McDowell Creek sediment entering Mountain Island Lake
Excerpt from the Charlotte Observer
CORNELIUS The town will join Mecklenburg County in helping to pay for restoration of part of an eroded creek that runs into Mountain Island Lake.
The lake provides drinking water for about 800,000 residents of Mecklenburg and Gaston counties and Clover, S.C.
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