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Western Piedmont COG warns Charlotte’s proposed interbasin transfer could strain Catawba River supplies
Summary
Anthony Starr of the Western Piedmont Council of Governments told Alexander County commissioners that Charlotte Water is seeking to increase its interbasin transfer certificate from 33 million to 63 million gallons per day and that research shows large IBTs can have economic and environmental harms for source basins; Starr urged local engagement with legislators and the UNC Collaboratory study.
Anthony Starr, director of the Western Piedmont Council of Governments, gave a detailed presentation to the Alexander County Board of Commissioners on the potential regional impacts of interbasin transfers (IBTs) from the Catawba River Basin. Starr explained that an IBT moves water from one river basin to another so it does not return to the source basin and that the Catawba River Basin is vulnerable to such transfers because it stores only a small percentage of annual…
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