SECTION .0500 - CENTRAL COASTAL PLAIN CAPACITY USE AREA

15A NCAC 02E .0501      DECLARATION AND DELINEATION OF CENTRAL COASTAL PLAIN CAPACITY USE AREA

The area encompassed by the following 15 North Carolina counties and adjoining creeks, streams, and rivers is hereby declared and delineated as the Central Coastal Plain Capacity Use Area:

(1)           Beaufort

(2)           Carteret

(3)           Craven

(4)           Duplin

(5)           Edgecombe

(6)           Greene

(7)           Jones

(8)           Lenoir

(9)           Martin

(10)         Onslow

(11)         Pamlico

(12)         Pitt

(13)         Washington

(14)         Wayne; and

(15)         Wilson.

The use of ground water requires coordination and limited regulation in this delineated area for protection of the public interest. The intent is to protect the long-term productivity of aquifers within the designated area and to allow the use of ground water for uses at rates which do not exceed or threaten to exceed the recharge rate of the aquifers within the designated area.

History Note:        Authority G.S. 143-215.13;

Eff. August 1, 2002;

Readopted Eff. January 1, 2022.