Haw River Assembly protects the Haw River Watershed.
This includes nine hundred and twenty miles of streams feeding into the Haw along the 110 miles of the river, the 14,000 acres of Jordan Lake, and the plants, animals, and people who depend on the river. We work as advocates to stop pollution through with our Haw Riverkeeper, and are building a watershed community that supports clean water through our outreach, education and water quality monitoring programs
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Learn About Current Watershed Issues
Decolonizing Earth Day
Thursday April 22 Earth Day at 7 pm online: “Decolonizing Earth Day: A BIPOC Perspective.” Haw River Assembly is hosting an online panel discussion with our Board members Nicole Spivey, Crystal Cavalier, Ayo Wilson, Jeannie Ambrose, and, former member Maribel Sierra – bringing Black, Indigenous, Asian and Hispanic perspectives to issues of environmental activism, equity, justice and access to nature. Join at: https://zoom.us/J/97453394610
Read more HERE
HRA Challenges Greensboro 1,4-Dioxane Pollution
North Carolina Agreement with Greensboro Violates Laws
A legal challenge of the state’s agreement with Greensboro over this toxic pollutant was filed on April 9 in the N.C. Office of Administrative Hearings by the Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of the Haw River Assembly. The agreement by state regulators with the City of Greensboro allows increased discharges of cancer-causing 1,4-dioxane from factories that discharge waste water into the city’s sewage treatment plant. That wastewater goes into the Haw River and then the Cape Fear – the drinking water source for nearly one million people. Read more at https://hawriver.org/14-dioxane-in-greensboro/
Virtual Haw River Festival!
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March 20 2021 Clean-Up-A-Thon was a BIG success!
Our 30th annual clean-up of the Haw River Watershed took place on Saturday, March 20th, 2021. We organized our annual clean-up into 35 small teams throughout the watershed, along many river and creek locations. See the trash tallies, a list of our wonderful local business sponsors, and a GREAT PHOTO GALLERY from the clean-up at http://hawriver.org/river-cleanup/
Mapping Environmental Justice in the Haw River Watershed
This fall, our UNC-CH intern, Lucy Gray, worked with us to build a community mapping tool that displays specific environmental justice issues within the watershed. The map contains data about potential and existing sources of pollution overlaid with demographic data to show the primary communities that are being affected by pollutants in certain areas, so that the Haw River Assembly will be able to better provide support to these communities in tackling these issues. View map at:
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ca3170b9aa154950ba867c7384a02187