OUR MISSION

The North Carolina State University (NCSU) Water Quality Group is a multidisciplinary team that analyzes and evaluates nonpoint source (NPS) pollution control technologies and water quality programs in North Carolina and nationwide.  We are a component of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service (NC CES), Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department (Bio&Ag) at North Carolina State University and the N.C. State University’s Soil and Water Environmental Technology Center (SWETC).

 

Online News Publications

Publications (pdf format)

Sediments Newsletters (NC DENR Land Quality)

• Current Issue, Vol 19(2):February-April 2013
  Topic Highlights:
  - Buncombe and Wake Counties Win Awards for Excellence in Erosion and Sediment Control
  - Land Quality Regional Offices Summary Statistics for Plan Approvals, Inspections, and Enforcement
  - Announcement of Combined Self-Monitoring and Self-Inspection Form
  - NC Sedimentation Control Commission: February 28, 2013 Actions
  - Land Quality Section Personnel Changes
  - SCC 2013 Meeting Dates
  - New SCC members (Ms. Charlotte A. Mitchell)
  - Division Name Change:  Division of Energy, Mineral, and Land Resources
  - Tale of Turbidity in Two Watersheds
  - IECA 2013 Moderator Experience
  - IECA Environmental Connection, February 25-28, 2014
  - Calendar of Workshops and Trainings

Back Issues of Sediments Newsletter

NWQEP NOTES Newsletter

Current issue:

• Notes #138, August 2013
  Totten and Eld Inlet Section 319 National Nonpoint Source Monitoring Program (NNPSMP) Project
  University of Wisconsin – Platteville's Pioneer Farm Water Quality and Flow Monitoring

Recent Past issues:

• Notes #137, October 2012
  Topic: Eagle River Stamp Sand Remediation Project
  Lessons Learned from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP)

• Note #136, December 2011
  Topic: Minimum Detectable Change (MDC)

• Note #135, November 2011
  Topic: Statistical Analysis for Monotonic Trends
  
  
• Notes # 134, September 2010
  Topic: Villanova University Stormwater Best Management Practice National Nonpoint Source Monitoring Program Project
  
  
• Notes # 133
  Topic: Waukegan River Illinois National Nonpoint Source Monitoring Program Project

Back issues of NWQEP NOTES

 

Recent Research Publications

Publications:

• Line, Daniel. 2007. Effects of Development on Runoff and Pollutant Export

 

Events

Event: 21st Annual National Nonpoint Source Monitoring Workshop-Working Together to Protect and Restore Our Water Resources October 28-30, 2013. Cleveland, OH https://npsmonitoring.tetratech-ffx.com/