Testing the waters 1,4 Dioxane in North Carolina’s Cape Fear River Basin - Science Nation
It was an email from a colleague that tipped off environmental engineer Detlef Knappe of possible 1,4-dioxane contamination in the Cape Fear River Basin, North Carolina's largest watershed and a source of drinking water for communities across the state.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has classified 1,4-dioxane as a probable human carcinogen. It is an industrial solvent used in the textile and paper industries and a by-product of manufacturing processes involving ethylene oxide, such as the production of certain plastics and surfactants used in laundry detergents and shampoos.
With support from a National Science Foundation (NSF) RAPID grant, Knappe and his team at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have begun to identify 1,4-dioxane sources and how 1,4-dioxane impacts drinking water quality. (RAPID is short for Grants for Rapid Response Research.) Another research goal is to determine whether home filtration devices effectively remove 1, 4-dioxane from tap water and how long those filters will last.
Knappe is also working with managers at water treatment plants and state policymakers in North Carolina to improve testing and treatment standards for 1,4-dioxane. Knappe says so far, the research team has identified three North Carolina communities as key sources of 1,4-dioxane and those communities are now working with the state and NCSU to identify which facilities are the source of the contamination.
He says the team is also evaluating point-of-use devices, such as pitcher and refrigerator filters, and has identified a new adsorbent that is quite effective for 1,4-dioxane removal.
The research in this episode was supported by NSF award #1449768, RAPID; GOALI: Sources of 1,4-Dioxane in the Cape Fear River Watershed of North Carolina and Treatment Options for 1,4-Dioxane Control. GOALI is NSF's Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry program.
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USA: HURRICANE FLOYD REACHES CAPE FEAR (2)
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Hurricane Floyd roared ashore today near Cape Fear, North Carolina with one hundred and ten miles-per-hour (one hundred and seventy kilometres-per-hour) winds.
It then quickly weakened after flooding the coasts of the Carolinas and Virginia on the west coast with more than a foot of rain and chasing tens of thousands of people into shelters.
At least seven deaths were blamed on Floyd.
By early Thursday afternoon, the storm was centred on the coast near the Virginia- Maryland border.
Hurricane Floyd struck the North Carolina coast around 3 a-m on Thursday morning local time.
As residents of North and South Carolina woke-up, they were greeted by flooded streets, downed trees and power lines, but sunny skies.
The governor of North Carolina, Jim Hunt, said his state experienced the worst flooding ever from one storm.
And it was that which surprised the residents.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
The wind got up strong a couple times, but the water was the big thing. It took our chimney cap off and it flooded our downstairs area.
SUPER CAPTION: Jonny Whalen, Wilmington resident
After crossing land in eastern North Carolina and the southeastern corner of Virginia, Floyd's dash along the coast is expected to take it past Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey, then into New York's Long Island early on Friday.
Disaster preparations were under way in New York City, Massachusetts' Cape Cod and along the coast of Maine.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Additional rainfall totals of perhaps three to six inches should be expected along the coastal states. Rainfall totals of up to, and in some places in excess of, twenty inches have occurred over North Carolina.
SUPER CAPTION: Ed Rappaport, National Hurricane Center
Authorities had urged more than two point six (2.6) million (M) people along the southern Atlantic coast to clear out of Floyd's path - the biggest evacuation in U-S history.
Evacuation orders were lifted on Thursday for all of the South Carolina coast and residents began returning to Charleston and other cities.
Those who stuck around to weather the storm began cleaning up and said it wasn't as bad as predicted.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
It's a pretty solid building. We spent the night upstairs. Looked at the window every now and then, it was pretty loud and a lot of stuff blowing by. We felt pretty safe.
SUPER CAPTION: Vox pop, Charleston, South Carolina resident
Some 1.3 million (M) households in the Carolinas and in Virginia lost power, and 125- thousand still had no power in Florida by Thursday.
In cities like Washington D-C heavy rain was the main concern.
Public schools were closed in Washington, Baltimore, all of New Jersey, Philadelphia and New York City.
President Bill Clinton visited the Federal Emergency Management Agency to see for himself what further damage the storm was expected to do.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
There may be some people who question when this is over whether we did the right thing to recommend all the evacuation. But now that we have this technology at the National Weather Center, we have to act on it. And we can all be grateful to God that this storm turned away and didn't hurt us as bad as we feared.
SUPER CAPTION: Bill Clinton, U-S President
Hundreds of airline flights were cancelled along the East Coast.
The U-S railway company Amtrak suspended all train service south of Washington and doesn't expect to restore services until Friday at the earliest.
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In 1898, White Supremacists Killed 60+ African Americans in One of Deadliest Mass Shootings in U.S.
- The Las Vegas attack on Sunday has been called the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Bishop William Barber joins us in studio for an extended interview to discuss another, less known mass attack: the infamous Wilmington massacre of 1898, when white supremacists seized armed control of the North Carolina town and killed at least 60 African-American residents, drove hundreds more out of town, burned down the local African-American newspaper and installed a former Confederate officer as the new mayor. Barber also discusses gun violence and violent policies in the aftermath of the Las Vegas attack.
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Crossing Delaware Memorial Bridge From New Jersey to Delaware
The Delaware Memorial Bridge is a twin suspension bridge crossing the Delaware River. The toll bridges carry Interstate 295 and U.S. Route 40 between Delaware and New Jersey. The bridge was designed by the firm known today as HNTB with consulting help from engineer Othmar Ammann, whose other designs include the Walt Whitman Bridge (which is similar in appearance, except for the fact that it is a single span) and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. It is also one of only two crossings of the Delaware River with both U.S. Highway and Interstate Highway designations, the other being the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.
The bridges provide a regional connection for long-distance travelers.[1] While not a part of Interstate 95, they connect two parts of the highway: the Delaware Turnpike (Interstate 95 in Delaware) on the south side with the New Jersey Turnpike (later Interstate 95 in New Jersey) on the north side. They also connect Interstate 495, U.S. Route 13, and Route 9 in New Castle, Delaware with U.S. Route 130 in Pennsville Township, New Jersey (at the settlement of Deepwater, New Jersey).
The bridges are dedicated to those from both New Jersey and Delaware who died in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War. On the Delaware side of the bridge is a War Memorial, visible from the northbound-side lanes. The toll facility is operated by the Delaware River and Bay Authority.
The Delaware Memorial Bridge is the southernmost fixed vehicular crossing of the Delaware River and the only fixed vehicular crossing between Delaware and New Jersey. However, at Fort Mott, N.J., there is a small amount of land on the New Jersey side of the river that is part of the State of Delaware, and thus there are pedestrian crossings in between those states, but not spanning the river. The Cape May–Lewes Ferry provides an alternate route between travelers from New Jersey and the Northeastern States to southern Delaware.
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Sailing from Montauk To North Carolina
My sailing trip from Montauk New York to St James North Carolina, might not be a gun video but still have some big Navy Guns
The Zhen Hua 16 arrives in Port of Wilmington
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1. Wide of ship
2. Aerial of ship
3. Pan of ship
4. Mid of ship moving through water
5. Pan of cargo container on ship
6. Wide of back of ship
7. Close-up of back of ship, with ship's name ZHEN HUA 16
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Adam Schmid, US Coast Guard:
Today we have the vessel the Zhen Hua 16 transiting through the Cape Fear River. Currently the Cape Fear River is closed to all vessel traffic, and that is necessary to ensure the safety of the public as well as the crew on board the vessel.
10. Wide of US Coast Guard boat moving in front of the ship
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Four huge cargo cranes destined for the docks at the state port in Wilmington, North Carolina arrived at the last leg of their long journey on Saturday as traffic was shut down on the Cape Fear River for their transit.
Coast Guard official, Lt. Adam Schmid, said river traffic was stopped to ensure the safety of the public as well as the crew on board the vessel.
The cranes aboard the 788-foot (240 metre) Zhen Hua 16 left Shanghai, China, on 2 December for a trip around the world. The ship was so large that it couldn't use the Panama Canal and was forced to go around the southern tip of Africa at the Cape of Good Hope on the way to North Carolina.
Once the ship arrived off the Cape Fear River, it didn't start the 26-mile (42 kilometres) trip up the river until weather conditions settled so engineers could board the ship.
Officials said the cranes are the central part of the port's 143 (m) million US dollars expansion of its container terminal and will allow larger ships to call on the port.
The ship is specially designed to carry the cranes almost completely erect.
It draws about 38 feet (13 metres) of water and is 138 feet (46 metres) wide. With the booms of the cranes extended, it is nearly 430 (144 metres) feet wide.
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USS Gravely
The USS Gravely going through Southport, NC today on it's way to Wilmington for it's Nov. 20 commissioning.
Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington is a port city in- and is the county seat of- New Hanover County in coastal southeastern North Carolina, United States. The population is 106,476; according to the 2010 Census it is the eighth most populous city in the state. Wilmington is the principal city of the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area, a metropolitan area that includes New Hanover and Pender counties in southeastern North Carolina, which has a population of 263,429 as of the 2012 Census Estimate.
Wilmington was settled by European Americans along the Cape Fear River. Its historic downtown has a one-mile-long Riverwalk, developed as a tourist attraction. It is minutes away from nearby beaches. The National Trust for Historic Preservation named Wilmington, North Carolina, as one of its 2008 Dozen Distinctive Destinations. City residents live between the river and the ocean, with four nearby beach communities: Fort Fisher, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, and Kure Beach, all within half-hour drives from downtown Wilmington.
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Strange UFOs Off the North Carolina Coast
Occurred on November 20, 2018 / Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina
witness statement: I was fishing on the beach at Cape Lookout on the evening of Tuesday, November 20 around 8PM and was there about an hour with nothing unusual happening. Around 9PM I rebaited my hooks, cast them out into the surf, and walked back to my chair. When I turned back to the ocean, I saw a light in the sky. The light is very bright, stationary, and silent. Over the course of the next hour it faded in and out, as well as sometimes becoming multiple lights. Once it went away completely for about 20 minutes and then reappeared much closer to my position. This video is from that time range. Again, once it appeared, it would fade in and out and become up to four lights at once, but never changed its overall position
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Road Trip to New York Part 3 - Charleston and Wilmington
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Celebration and Activities aboard the Battleship NORTH CAROLINA in 1961 upon her arrival in Wilmington, NC.
After serving as a training vessel for midshipmen, NORTH CAROLINA was decommissioned 27 June 1947 and placed in the Inactive Reserve Fleet in Bayonne, New Jersey, for the next 14 years. In 1958 the announcement of her impending scrapping led to a statewide campaign by citizens of North Carolina to save the ship from the scrappers torches and bring her back to her home state. The Save Our Ship (SOS) campaign was successful and the Battleship arrived in her current berth on 2 October 1961. She was dedicated on 29 April 1962 as the State's memorial to its World War II veterans and the 10,000 North Carolinians who died during the war. Donation from the estate of Hugh Morton
Charleston SC Bridge Road View Tour
Charleston SC Bridge Road View Tour
Charleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, surpassed only by the state capital of Columbia. Charleston is the county seat of the modern Charleston County.
In 1670, Charleston was originally named Charles Towne. It moved to its present location on Oyster Point in 1680 from a location on the west bank of the Ashley River known as Albemarle Point. Charleston adopted its present name in 1783. In 1690, Charleston was the fifth largest city in North America, and remained among the ten largest cities in the United States through the 1840 census.
Charleston is known as The Holy City perhaps by virtue of the prominence of churches on the low-rise cityscape, perhaps because, like Mecca, its devotees hold it so dear], and perhaps for the fact that Carolina was among the few original thirteen colonies to provide toleration for all Protestant religions, though it was not open to Roman Catholics. Many Huguenots found their way to Charleston. Carolina also allowed Jews to practice their faith without restriction. Current trends put Charleston as the fastest-growing municipality in South Carolina. The city's metropolitan area population was counted by the 2010 census at 664,607 -- the second largest in the state -- and the 75th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States.
The city of Charleston is located just south of the midpoint of South Carolina's coastline, at the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper rivers, which flow together into the Atlantic Ocean. Charleston Harbor lies between downtown Charleston and the Atlantic Ocean. Charleston's name is derived from Charles Towne, named after King Charles II of England.
In 2011, Charleston was named #1 U.S. City by Conde Nast Traveler's Readers' Choice Awards and #2 Best City in the U.S. and Canada by Travel + Leisure's World's Best Awards. Also in 2011, Bon Appetit magazine named Husk, located on Queen Street in Charleston, the Best New Restaurant in America. America's most-published etiquette expert, Marjabelle Young Stewart, recognized Charleston 1995 as the best-mannered city in the U.S, a claim lent credibility by the fact that it has the first established Livability Court in the country. In 2011, Travel and Leisure Magazine named Charleston America's Sexiest City, as well as America's Most Friendly. Subsequently, Southern Living Magazine named Charleston the most polite and hospitable city in America. In 2012, Travel and Leisure voted Charleston as the second best-dressed city in America, only behind New York City.
South Carolina's Lowcountry holds a major place of importance in African-American history for many reasons, but perhaps most importantly as a port of entry for people of African descent. According to several historians, anywhere from 40 to 60 percent of the Africans who were brought to America during the slave trade entered through ports in the Lowcountry.
This has given the Lowcountry the designation among some as the Ellis Island for African Americans, although some dispute this term, as the Ellis Island immigrants arrived voluntarily as opposed to the Africans who were captured in the Atlantic slave trade.
According to Peter Wood in his book Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 to the Stono Rebellion, the successful cultivation of rice in the Lowcountry in the 1600s was a major factor in the importation of African labor. Sir Jonathan Atkins was quoted in 1680 as saying, Since people have found out the convenience and cheapness of slave labor they no longer keep white men, who formerly did the work on the Plantations. Joseph Corry, an Englishman who spent some time in what is now the West African nation of Sierra Leone, noted, Rice forms the chief part of the African's sustenance.
When further observation noted the skill of Africans in this region in cultivating rice, Africans from the vicinity of Sierra Leone and Ghana became especially sought-after by slave owners in the South Carolina Lowcountry.
The demand for Africans in the rice-growing regions was such that, By the time the (South Carolina) colony's Proprietors gave way to a royal government in 1720, Africans had outnumbered Europeans for more than a decade.
According to Elaine Nichols of the South Carolina State Museum, Sullivan's Island, an island near Charleston, was a major port of entry for enslaved Africans. Her paper Sullivan's Island Pest Houses: Beginning an Archeological Investigation (1989), detailed the phenomenon of Pest Houses, that were used to quarantine Africans upon their arrival, for fear that the Africans would have contagious diseases. The Africans would often remain confined from 10 to 40 days and 200-300 at a time would sometimes remain in isolation in the pest houses. By 1793, residents of Sullivan's Island demanded that the pest houses be removed from the vicinity.
Drinking water in North Carolina being tested for toxic substance
At a plant 80 miles upstream from Wilmington, North Carolina, a substance called GenX is manufactured by DuPont and Chemours. Company officials recently revealed that the chemical has been released into the river for nearly four decades.
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Hurricane Florence .. Continued aftermath of hurricane
Hurricane Florence
SOS Alert • East Coast, United States
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Noah’s Ark except it’s a school bus: Truck driver rescues 64 dogs and cats from floods of Hurricane Florence
Washington Post
11 hours ago
Florence Live Updates: Rivers Still Rising as Storm Pushes Away
The New York Times
4 hours ago
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Hurricane Florence aftermath: Flooding crisis in North and South Carolina - live updates as rescues continue
CBS News
2 mins ago
Mom of 1-Year-Old Swept Away in Hurricane Florence Floodwaters Speaks Out: 'He's Just Gone'
People Magazine
13 mins ago
LIVE
Carolinas flood after Florence: Live updates
CNN.com
57 mins ago
Hurricane Florence damage estimated at $17 billion to $22 billion and could go higher — Moody's Analytics
CNBC.com
1 hour ago
'Pretty much cut off': Water everywhere as Florence floodwaters swamp North Carolina's isolated communities
NBC News
1 hour ago
Florence leaves 'a monumental disaster' in the Carolinas -- with more trouble to come
CNN.com
1 hour ago
NC firefighter thought he saw gator in hurricane flood waters. It was venomous snakes
Charlotte Observer
1 hour ago
After Florence Tropical Atlantic Basin Calms Down, But Hurricane Season Is Far from Over
The Weather Channel
2 hours ago
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Report any property damage from #HurricanceFlorence using the #SCEmergency Manager mobile app.
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National Hurricane Center
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Post-Tropical Cyclone #Florence Advisory 74: Now available on the NHC website. go.usa.gov/W3H
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National Hurricane Center
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Post-Tropical Cyclone #Florence Advisory 74: Now available on the NHC website. go.usa.gov/W3H
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National Hurricane Center
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Tropical Depression #Joyce Advisory 21: Joyce Continues as a Depression Turning Southeast. go.usa.gov/W3H
2 hours ago · Twitter
FEMA Region 4
(@femaregion4)
Flooding continues to be a concern as remnants of #Florence move north. Listen to your local officials and NEVER attempt to drive through a flooded road. youtu.be/bNmwwJvF7Zw
2 hours ago · Twitter
NWS
(@NWS)
Remnants of #Florence continue to create an environment capable of generating brief, damaging tornadoes. These tornadoes may be brief but can do serious damage along their path. If a tornado warning is issued for your area, seek shelter immediately! spc.noaa.gov pic.twitter.com/dqa39Yw…
3 hours ago · Twitter
SCEMD
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A very high heat index is forecast for the next couple of days. Please remember to drink plenty of cool water and check on loved ones. #Florence pic.twitter.com/uP1kda5…
3 hours ago · Twitter
NWS
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We're still updating our #Florence page with new and updated information! @NWSWPC has taken over advisories from @NHC_Atlantic and we've added a link to overflight imagery from the National Geodetic Survey which will update as data comes in: weather.gov/wrn/Florenc… pic.twitter.com/HlXTi0I…
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