2A THE CHOWAN HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5,2017
Pets of the Week
Charming and shy Charcoal is a one
year old male Golden Retriever mix.
He is healthy and heartworm negative.
Charcoal is in need of TLC and the
security of a loving home.
Little girl kittens Snowflake and Snowball
are just hanging out with their brother
Frosty. All the kittens are accomplished
at playing, snuggling, and napping.
Snuggles, Nibbles, Bundles and Jiggles are
delightful gray and white kittens. These
girls and boys are a fun bundle of activity.
Their adoption fees include spaying/
neutering, basic shots and micro chips.
MARY JO SELLERS PHOTOS
Little Jack seems to be a combination
of Beagle and Catahoula Cur. He is an
inquisitive energetic young male ready
for action.
The Tri-County Animal Shelter and Adoption Center is on Icaria Road in Tyner and can be reached at 221-8514.
Crimewatch
EDENTON POLICE
DEPARTMENT
ARRESTS
■ June 6 — Denzel
Lamont Evans, 24, of White-
mon Lane, was arrested on
one misdemeanor count of
assault, one misdemeanor
count of affray (fighting)
and one misdemeanor count
of contributing to the delin
quency of a minor.
INCIDENTS
■ June 19 — Larceny on
North Granville Street.
■ June 18 — Larceny on
Hawthorne Road.
CHOWAN COUNTY
SHERIFF’S OFFICE
ARRESTS
■ June 25 — Dustin Sean
Bunch, 30, of Montpelier
Drive, was arrested on one
misdemeanor count of sec
ond degree trespass.
■ June 24 — Daniel Hunt
er Mizelle, 21, of Seaview
Drive, was arrested on one
misdemeanor count of sec
ond degree trespass, one mis
demeanor count of assault
and battery, and one misde
meanor count of littering.
■ June 23 — Gary Ester,
47, of Juniper Drive, was ar
rested on one misdemeanor
count of assault on a female,
one misdemeanor count of
assault inflicting serious in
jury and one misdemeanor
count of interfering with
an emergency communica
tions call.
■ June 22 — Donovan
Quante Rountree, 27, of
Wingfield Road, was arrest
ed on one count of
■ June 20 — Michael Ta
bor Ellis, age unknown, of
Yeopim Trail, was arrested
on two misdemeanor counts
of indecent exposure.
INCIDENTS
■ None reported.
ALGAE
Continued from 1A
Powell noted that the first
bloom in Chowan County
was reported on June 12
and worsening conditions
had prompted those work
ing on the issue to look at
why a surge in the presence
of algal blooms was occur
ring.
“What’s changed in the last
few years that has allowed
the blooms to come back,”
Powell said.
Powell said that sighting
was on a Monday and by Fri
day “we had a report” from
the Division of Environmen
tal Quality.
“Getting reports has been
reduced to a week,” he add
ed. “It used to take much
longer.”
Powell credited efforts by
the CEEG at five monitor
ing sites with making a dif
ference. He said that toxins
were not found in that initial
sampling.
But algae blooms in the
water diminishes the amount
of oxygen present and can
have deadly consequences as
one couple from Arrowhead
Beach seated in the audience
pointed out
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kirby
said that a man constructing
a bulkhead in their neighbor
hood discovered a large fish
kill
Powell said that was not
surprising given that the
presence of algae in the wa
ter decreases the amount of
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Cathy Davison of the Albemarle Commission talks about
the challenges of determining what caused an algae
outbreak in Chowan County waters during a Citizens
Information Forum held at the COA Edenton campus on
Thursday night. Davison was one of several leaaders of
community organizations that have banded together to
address the issue who spoke at the gathering.
oxygen available to aquatic
life and causes them to die
from oxygen deprivation.
“He said he had never seen
anything like it,” they said.
Colleen Karl said that at
this point there are still more
questions than answers. But
she emphasized the impor
tance of volunteers joining
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the 5-monitoring site effort to
help gather information that
can quickly be provided to
NOAA offices in North and
South Carolina.
“We’re doing the work but
we need more people to join
us,” she said. “We’re citizen
scientists and we’re doing
the work.”
Thousands of gallons of wastewater
discharged during heavy storm
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
EDENTON — More than
40,000 gallons of untreated
wastewater was discharged
from Edenton’s sewer col
lection system into two
creeks in the town’s north
end during June 24’s heavy
rainstorm, town officials
said this week.
According to a press re
lease issued Monday by the
Edenton town manager’s of
fice, approximately 17,850
gallons of untreated waste-
water discharged from a
manhole near 719 N. Gran
ville Street reached Filbert’s
Creek/Pembroke Creek.
A second discharge from
two manholes near 209 E.
Water Street totalling 26,774
gallons of untreated waste-
water reached Queen Anne
Creek.
The untreated wastewa
ter entered Edenton Bay
and the Chowan River Ba
sin.
The discharges were
caused by the extremely
SCAM
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County are aware and don’t
fall for this scam,” he said.
So what should you do if
you get such a call?
First, ask a question that
only your grandchildren
can answer. Sometimes
that is enough to make a
scammer end the conver
sation by hanging up. If
that doesn’t work, pause,
calm yourself and say you
will have to check with
other family members and
then proceed to hang up
the phone.
Immediately check on the
whereabouts of the grand
child in question. If the need
is real, you can still respond
and offer help. If not you will
have just avoided becoming
one of the more than 10,000
citizens to file a “family/
friend” fraud complaint each
year.
Another important step is
to notify the Chowan County
Sheriff’s Office by calling
482-8484 so that others in the
heavy rain that created,
according to the National
Weather Service, flash flood
ing in Edenton.
The significant amount of
rainfall — 3 inches in three
hours — helped dilute the
impact of the discharge,
Town Manager Anne-Marie
Knighton said.
“This event Saturday eve
ning was unusual in that we
had so much rain in a short
period of time,” she said.
Knighton said town crews
worked to contain the over
flows as soon as they were
discovered aroynd 10 p.m.
Saturday. The discharges
were stopped by 1:30 a.m.
Sunday, she said.
“It is not uncommon for
sanitary sewer systems to
experience overflows dur
ing extreme heavy rains,”
Knighton explained. “We
had overflows during Hur
ricane Matthew and so did
just about eveiy (munici-
pally-owned wastewaster)
system in eastern North
Carolina.”
The areas around the dis ¬
community can be alerted.
The primary thing, the
sheriff said, is not to be em
barrassed but to share your
experience so that others
can be aware and respond
appropriately.
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charges were cleaned and
disinfected Saturday and
again on Sunday morning,
town officials said.
Edenton recently re
ceived a grant from the
state for Hurricane Matthew
disaster relief to hire a con
tractor to videotape sewer
collection lines to find
where stormwater is enter
ing the sanitary sewer sys
tem during extreme heavy
rain events.
Repairs can then be made
to stop the inflow and infil
tration of stormwater from
entering the system.
“We recently smoke test
ed the lines in these areas
and found a few cross con
nections, where stormwater
lines are tied into sanitary
sewer lines,” Knighton said.
“We are working on plan of
action eliminate these cross
connections. Also, we are
hopeful that our grant proj
ect will identify other areas
where stormwater is enter
ing the sanitary sewer and
then we will make the nec
essary repairs.”
Dan Evans, center,
a member and
representative of the
Albemarle Sounds choral
group, presents checks in
the amount of $1,000 to
Edenton-Chowan Schools
music teachers Carolynn
O’Kelley, choral music
teacher at Chowan Middle
School and Justin Smith,
choral music teacher
at John A. Holmes High
School. The funds were
donated by members of
the Albemarle Sounds to
purchase equipment and
supplies for the music
programs.
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