4.5 River Basins
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Location of the Tar–Pamlico River Basin
4.5.17.2 Aquatic Resource Conditions Tere are about 9,766 miles of streams and rivers, including small intermittent and ephem- eral streams, and numerous acres of freshwater and estuarine wetland communities in the basin. Segments of the Pamlico, Pungo, and Long Shoal rivers and their tributaries have supplemental classifcations as High Quality Waters (HQW) or Outstanding Resource Waters (ORW) because they either have excellent water quality or they are a signifcant resource to humans and/or wildlife (NCDWR 2015c, 2015d) . Coastal estuarine waters of Core Sound, Swanquarter Bay Refuge, and Juniper, Back, Rose, Wysocking, Germantown, Deep, Spencer and other bays carry either a HWQ or ORW classifcation (NCDWR 2015a, 2015c, 2015d) . Tere are ORW Special Management Strategy Areas in the basin for the Swift Creek area (116,782 acres) and Swanquarter Bay and Juniper Bay areas (28,536 acres) (NCDWR 2015c) . Tese areas require site-specifc provisions to protect resource values (no new discharges or expansion of existing discharges) (see 15A NCAC 02B .0225). Table 4.82 provides information on water quality classifcations and use support in the basin. Detailed information on water quality parameters in the basin is available online from the NCDWR Basin Planning Branch http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/wq/ps/bpu.
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2015 NC Wildlife Action Plan
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