RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) -- A nonprofit group that tests more than 50 sites weekly along North Carolina rivers reported Friday just two areas failed for testing of fecal bacteria levels this week.

Sound Rivers monitors and tests rivers throughout the summer from the Durham and Raleigh area to the coast.

This week, nearly all river sites were clear after 12 river areas failed testing last week.

“Last week’s results were likely due to the rain we had prior to testing,” Clay Barber, Sound Rivers’ program director, said in a news release. “Any time there’s a hard rain, water quality can be affected by the influx of stormwater into the waterways because stormwater runoff can carry some pretty nasty stuff off the land and into the water.“

The upper Neuse River watershed had no sites that failed

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