CHOWAN COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - State biologists are advising the public to stay away from the Chowan River due to an algae bloom that can be harmful to people, pets, and fish. The Division of Water ...

CHOWAN COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - State officials are warning people about algae blooms on one river in Eastern Carolina. The Department of Environmental Quality says people should not touch green or blue ...

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 ...

Officials with the N.C. Division of Water Resources continue to urge the public to avoid contact with green or blue water in the Chowan River due to an ongoing algal bloom that has lingered in the ...

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, ...

Since 2000, a 600-foot portion of the old Chowan River bridge has sat parallel to the newer bridge that carries traffic between Chowan and Bertie counties. Chowan County, the town of Edenton and North ...

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 ...

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services says the public should stay out of the Chowan River near Arrowhead Beach, because of an algal bloom producing a toxin called Microcystin.

HERTFORD, NC (WVEC) -- An aircraft has gone down in North Carolina's Chowan River, Hertford County Sheriff Dexter Hayes confirms. Sheriff Hayes says the aircraft is a seaplane, and is reportedly ...

A state agency is advising residents of Chowan and Bertie counties to avoid green or blue green water caused by an algal bloom that’s lingered in the Chowan River since last week. N.C. Department of ...

Gates County, N.C. – The bodies of two men whose boat sank on the Chowan River Saturday have been located. According to Gates County Sheriff Ed Webb, the body of Ervin Curtis Hedgepath, 67, was ...