ONCE with license numbers, etc. Turbidity levels at ML 24 have again skyrocketed following a rain event. In particular, fecal coliform counts have been unusually high at ML 7 and 27 . Sedimentation is a problem at ML 32 near the junction of Persimmon Road with Rt. Land disturbance without sedimentation control is one cause.
Sedimentation causes high levels of turbidity and total suspended solids .
Sedimentation at ML 24 has been serious in the fall of 1998. Development activity upstream has apparently caused extremely high turbidity and total suspended solids loads there. This problem has now been cleaned up as Brunswick County has adopted county-wide trash pickup service. The nutrients of concern are nitrogen and phosphorus . Investigation of the non- E. coli bacteria in our fecal coliform samples reveals a significant degree of antibiotic resistance among them, particularly the pathogen, Klebsiella pneumoniae .