Sound Rivers Site Search Outreach Crowd turns up for ReNew Bern landuse ordinance workshop Round 2 Riverkeeper goes on hunt for Blounts Creek critters New faces Cleanout nets 80 pounds of trash and firtstime volunteers Next chapter NCDEQ issues Blounts Creek mining permit Investigation Sound Rivers New podcast episode gives a behindthescenes look at Sound Rivers pollution investigations Online Store All proceeds go to support your Riverkeepers work. How We Make a Difference Our mission is to monitor and protect the Neuse and TarPamlico River watersheds covering nearly one quarter of North Carolina and to preserve the health and beauty of the river basin through environmental justice. Sound Rivers two fulltime RIVERKEEPERS monitor the Neuse and TarPamlico watersheds which cover nearly a quarter of North Carolina from the Piedmont to the coast. You may find them on the water investigating an algal bloom or fish kill on land at a public hearing explaining why a new landfill next to a river tributary is a bad idea or even in the air surveilling pollution entering our streams creeks and rivers from industrial animal facilities.