MONITOR NEW LAND, BUILDING, AIR & WATER PERMITS AND PUBLIC NOTICES:
Monitor applications for new NPDES discharge, stormwater and sewer permits, air emissions permits, public notices, public hearings, comment periods and notices of intent at the NC Department of Environmental Quality website here: https://www.deq.nc.gov/public-notices-hearings
Watch for Notices seeking PUBLIC COMMENTS for BROWNFIELD properties here: https://www.deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/waste-management/brownfields-redevelopment-section/public-comment-notices
Monitor Guilford County permits, inspections, plan reviews and code violations here: https://citizenaccess.guilfordcountync.gov/energov_prod/selfservice#/home
Monitor Army Corps of Engineers public notices and applications to build in wetlands, discharge into wetlands or streams or impact wetlands or streams with construction of new developments. Jamestown is in the Wilmington District: https://www.saw.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory-Permit-Program/Public-Notices/Year/2023/
Check the status of pending environmental applications affecting air quality, stormwater and wastewater systems, extensions and capacity use permits at NCDEQ: https://deq.nc.gov/permits-rules/environmental-application-tracker
EPA Information
The waterway data in the EPA’s online databases are populated with the information they receive from the NCDEQ. Unfortunately, the information on Jamestown’s waterways – Deep River, Bull Run, Copper Branch, Richland Creek and Long Branch is outdated. So don’t use this information for anything other than as a lightweight mapping tool.
Search the Environmental Protection Agency’s national Enforcement and Compliance History for some facility permits and discharge overages, pollution sources, and EPA enforcement cases. It’s difficult to navigate, though, and not up to date. Start here, enter your zip code, then ZOOM IN to your neighborhood: https://echo.epa.gov
For old information (pre-2012) on streams and waterways in Jamestown and Guilford County: Go to the EPA’s “How’s My Waterway” database: https://www.epa.gov/waterdata/hows-my-waterway
RESEARCH EXISTING AND HISTORICAL LAND, BUILDING & WATER RECORDS:
Explore decades of North Carolina Laserfiche files, correspondence, documents, emails, municipal inspections, applications, classifications, violations, accidents, remedial procedures and existing problems with respect to local abandoned and/or operational Brownfields, Hazardous Waste Sites, Solid Waste Sites, SuperFund Sites, and Underground Storage Tanks (USTs) at: https://edocs.deq.nc.gov/WasteManagement/Welcome.aspx?dbid=0&repo=WasteManagement&cr=1
Explore North Carolina Laserfiche files for correspondence, construction COCs, documents, emails and histories of programs, permits, compliance, violations and inspections concerning Water Supply Watershed programs, Stormwater permits, NPDES MS4 program and permits: https://edocs.deq.nc.gov/StormWater/welcome.aspx?dbid=0&repo=WaterResources&cr=1
Explore North Carolina groundwater and well construction records dating back to 1920: https://edocs.deq.nc.gov/Groundwater/Browse.aspx?id=256243&dbid=0&repo=WaterResources&cr=1
Explore North Carolina coastal management records and wetland determinations at https://edocs.deq.nc.gov/CoastalManagement/Welcome.aspx?dbid=0&repo=CoastalManagement&cr=1
Explore North Carolina Energy Mineral Land Resources records relating to erosion and sediment control, mining, geologic surveys, dam overtopping reports, oil and gas pipelines at https://edocs.deq.nc.gov/EnergyMineralLandResources/browse.aspx?id=1&dbid=0&repo=EnergyMineralLandResources