WASHINGTON, N.C. — All sites on the Tar-Pamlico get the clean-water go-ahead for the Fourth of July weekend. Clay Barber, Sound Rivers’ program director, says the unusual lack of rain this ...

Each week, a group of volunteers gather water samples at more than 50 popular recreation sites from the Raleigh-Durham area to the Pamlico Sound. The samples are tested for E. coli and released to ...

WASHINGTON, N.C. (WNCT) — Only one of the 52 sites that Sound Rivers tests each week on the Neuse, Tar and Pamlico rivers failed the latest water quality test this week. Slocum Creek in Havelock ...

Four sites on the Neuse River and two sites on the Tar-Pamlico failed the Sound Rivers Swim Guide test this week.