A green slime of algae covered a Chowan County neighborhood canal so completely it looked like a continuation of grass from the waterfront lawns. Residents avoid it. They don’t fish or swim in it, ...

Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020 -- I motored along the shoreline of the Chowan River admiring giant cypress trees growing well out into the water. We beached the skiff on several occasions to look at steep sand ...

CHOWAN COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) — Don’t go swimming in the Chowan River in North Carolina. State officials have issued a warning for part of the waterway after finding high levels of algae blooms. Algae ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Researchers at UNC’s Institute of Marine Sciences are currently studying algal blooms in the Chowan river. Haley Plaas is a PhD Student at UNC. She is working to determine if ...

EDENTON, N.C. (WITN) - The summer heat is causing problems for parts of the Chowan River in Edenton. Algae blooms have popped up in several of the river’s tributaries and ponds. Algae blooms are a ...

Areas of the river that are impacted include Bertie and Chowan counties, with reports of the bloom along the eastern and western shorelines from Harrellsville downstream to the Edenton Bay area, as ...

Officials in North Carolina are warning residents to avoid contact with green or blue water in the Chowan River because of an algal bloom. N.C. Division of Water Resources said in a news release that ...

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality is warning the public to avoid about eight miles of the Chowan River between Rockyhook and Edenton. An algal bloom that was first reported in the area last ...

HERTFORD Co., N.C. – Deputies are responding to a report that a small plane went down in the Chowan River Friday afternoon, according to Sheriff Dexter Hayes. The plane is a river plane and it landed ...

A Virginia couple died Saturday when two boats collided on the Chowan River in North Carolina near the Virginia state line. Douglas Martin, 42, and Angela Martin, 35, died when another boat collided ...

Forget the sharks and the venomous snakes found in abundance in far eastern North Carolina. The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality is urging the public to avoid contact with the green and blue ...

REYNOLDSON, N.C. (AP) – A Virginia couple has been killed in a collision involving two boats on the Chowan River. Lt. Mark Rich of the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission told media outlets 42 ...