Lake James Environmental Association
Our Current Initiatives and Objectives
- Acquire additional land to expand the Lake James State Park.
- Acquire and protect land for a bald eagle habitat at Lake James.
- Acquire land to extend the southern edge of the Pisgah National Forest down to the north shore of Lake James.
- Inject a positive environmental influence into the negotiations between the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Duke Power Company in the 5-year revisions of the Catawba-Wateree Project Shoreline Management Plan. Exert an equally positive influence on the negotiations to extend the Catawba-Wateree power generation license scheduled for 2008.
- Inject environmentally responsible restraints on residential growth along the Lake James shoreline.
- Support and positively influence the Burke and McDowell County commissioners efforts to upgrade the Lake James watershed and use the lake as a source of clean drinking water for both counties.
- Enhance and augment lake water quality testing conducted by government agencies by organizing, sponsoring, and managing a citizen-based Lake James Volunteer Water Information Network.
- Establish and update a comprehensive water quality baseline for Lake James and its tributary streams. Detect and respond to any future degradation of that baseline.
- Increase public awareness of the health hazards associated with cyanobacteria and establish an algal bloom alert monitoring network for Lake James.
Lake James Environmental Association was established in 1973 in order to:
Protect, foster, and enhance the environment and the ecology of Lake James and its tributary waters in western North Carolina |
Engage in any and all types of activities not prohibited by law which shall be for the betterment of the Lake James Community and the State of North Carolina |