Clean Water board visits Surry

Officials of a state water-protection group that has granted more than $23 million for projects in Surry County — and is being counted on for more — gathered recently in Mount Airy.

The board of trustees of the North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund held its regularly scheduled June meeting on June 1 at Hampton Inn; after a business session, the board toured some of the projects it has funded in this area.

That included Fisher River Park at Dobson and, after returning to Mount Airy, walking on a section of the Ararat River Greenway.

The Clean Water Management Trust Fund was established in 1996 by the N.C. General Assembly, which makes a direct appropriation to supply grants to local governments, state agencies and conservation non-profits to help finance projects specifically addressing water-pollution problems. The nine-member fund board of trustees has responsibility over the allocation of that money.

Visitors to Fisher River Park frolic in the water.

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The board of trustees of the North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund held its regularly scheduled June meeting in Surry County on June 1.

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Mount Airy Mayor David Rowe welcomes the delegation.

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Another project aided by the North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund.

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