Here’s how we keep fighting the Cape Fear water grab Myron B. Pitts

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Fuquay-Varina is requesting to transfer 6.17 million gallons of water per day from the Cape Fear River basin.

Concerns include worsening pollution, reduced water levels for recreation, and potential impacts on Fort Bragg's readiness.

A 1993 law was originally created to protect downstream communities like Cumberland County from such water transfers.

A law regulating the transfer of water between river basins was meant to help places like Cumberland County. Cities downstream of the Cape Fear River historically could only stand by while water-hungry cities in the Triangle scooped out water by the millions of gallons from the Cape Fear River basin. A key developer of the 1993 N.C. Interbasin Transfer Water Act was the late Walter Moorman, a member of the Cape Fear