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 Chowan Perquimans Habitat Mil for Humanity ReStore Open Tues., Thurs., Sat. 9:00 am to 1:00 pm We pick-up large donations! 1370 N. Broad St., Edenton 482-2686 Call Allen C. Brown Attorney #252-752-0753 ^ A Debt Relief Agency helping people eliminate debt through bankruptcy ^ STAFF PHOTO BY REBECCA BUNCH 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 BANKRUPTCY STOP Foreclosure STOP Lawsuits STOP Car Repossession STOP Tax Levies and Garnishments 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 Continued from 1A 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. chowa^herald (USPS 106-380) Vol. 82, No. 26 Published Every Wednesday Cooke Communications North Carolina, LLC Enteredasasecond-classmatterAugust30,1934atthePostOffice of Edenton, North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1870. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily Advance home delivery area $27* (Chowan, Perquimans, Pasquotank, Camden, Currituck, parts of Gates) Elsewhere in continental United States $46 *Plus applicable sales tax. Activation fee of $1.99 will be collected with all new subscriptions. Deactivation fees may apply for early cancellation. POSTMASTER: SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO: The Chowan Herald • P.O. Box 207 • Edenton, NC 27932 Telephone: (252) 482-2623 Fax: (252) 482-4410 mlayton@ncweeklies.com 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. SUBMITTED PHOTO To report contact by a scammer, you can file a com plaint with the Federal Trade Commission by calling 1-877- 382-4357 or the AARP Foun dation Fraud Fighter Call Center at 1-800-646-2283.

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