Cool Springs Grower of Premium N.C. Fraser Fir Christmas Trees Says Clean Water Act Worked!
Last night it rained five plus inches in Linville, N.C. I have a brook that runs outside of my house and I looked at it in amazement, it was running clear, you could see the bottom even though there was ten times as much water and lots of run off from lots of square miles of land. Amazing! Twenty years ago this would have been unheard of, this stream would have been muddy and would have deposited lots of silt in the process. What changed? The Clean Water Act of 1972 was passed which had lofty goals of zero discharge along with many other goals pertaining to erosion measures which have been a huge success. The streams now for the most part run clear in North Carolina. Those of us who are growing Fraser Fir Christmas Trees are contributing to clean water, in the past we had very little ground cover on our fields for parts of the year in our losing effort to fight the weeds but now due to low rate suppression round up applications we have beautiful ground cover that is often clover. Business, government and environmentalist can make progress in making the environment cleaner and more pristine if we will work reasonably together.
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