2024 Initiatives
January 16, 2024
Join us as we work towards clean, plentiful water for all!
We've got big plans for 2024 to continue our work to preserve, protect, and restore local waterways through education, advocacy, and engagement.
- Mitigate the effects of stormwater runoff by advocating for policy changes at the local and state level.
- Monitor our waterways through the Swim Guide program, autonomous ambient monitoring systems, macroinvertebrate sampling, and fish sampling.
- Restore our waterways through innovative, low-cost projects like live staking, Spider Lily propagation, beaver dam analogs, and shoreline stabilization.
- Limit permitted pollution advocating for enforcement and changes to permits that better protect surface waters.
- Provide on-the-water experiences for youth and adults through outdoor recreation programs.
- Educate basin residents of all ages about their watershed and how to protect it.
- Host impactful volunteer opportunities that produce measurable outcomes for the health of our waterways.
- Remove another 100,000 pounds of trash from our lakes and streams like we’ve done for the past two years.
Catawba Riverkeeper Floating Classroom
Whether you're planning a day at the lake or a weekend on the river, knowing if the water is safe for swimming is an important part of any outdoor adventure. Today, that information is only a few clicks away thanks to Swim Guide, a program that has grown from a local initiative into the world's largest recreational water quality network.
The rocky shoals spider lily (Hymenocallis occidentalis) is a rare aquatic flowering plant characterized by its distinctive crown-like membrane called the "corona." The flower features six spider-leg-like extensions attached to the corona, along with six stamens. Each plant grows to about 3 feet tall and 3 feet wide in direct sunlight, with multiple blooms on a single stalk.
