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Caldwell County coalition warns Charlotte's proposed interbasin transfer could strain Catawba River
Summary
Anthony Starr of the Western Piedmont Council of Governments updated Caldwell County commissioners on Charlotte Water's proposal to increase interbasin transfers, saying the utility may seek to push transfers from 33 million to as much as 63 million gallons per day and urging local governments to engage the state study and legislators.
Anthony Starr of the Western Piedmont Council of Governments told the Caldwell County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 26 that Charlotte Water's proposal to expand interbasin transfers (IBTs) could have significant economic and environmental impacts on communities along the Catawba River.
Starr defined an IBT as "when a community such as the city of Charlotte withdraws water from the Catawba River ... and then discharges it into a different river basin," and said the coalition's research finds such transfers "have both economic and environmental negative impacts on the source basin." He said Charlotte Water currently holds a 33 million gallons-per-day (gpd) certificate from 2002 and is proposing increases that, in presentation slides, could…
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