NEW HANOVER COUNTY (WWAY) — The Town of Fuquay-Varina has applied for an Interbasin Transfer Certificate that would allow for taking water out of the Cape Fear River and placing it in the Neuse River instead.
Water is a vital natural resource for communities, and the Executive Director of the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority, Kenneth Waldroup, says that the process is simple.
“All water providers that use surface water, that use a river like the Cape Fear, they remove water from the Cape Fear River, they cleanse it in a water treatment plant, they distribute it to their customers through water lines, our customers get to use that. You cut on your sink, you take a shower, you clean clothes, and then that water is used, it’s wastewater. We collect that; we bring it back to a treatment plant; we cleanse that and then return it to the environment,” says Waldroup…