NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1147

HOUSE BILL 817

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES TO COOPERATE WITH THE SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR A STUDY OF THE AHOSKIE CREEK WATERSHED.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The Department of Water Resources is authorized to cooperate with the Soil Conservation Service and other State and Federal agencies in a study of the watershed of Ahoskie Creek in Northampton and Hertford Counties, for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, interpreting and reporting basic data as to: the relationship between rainfall and runoff in the watershed; applicable hydrographic characteristics; crop distribution and yields; channel behavior in Ahoskie Creek and its tributaries, rates of aggradation, degradation, and other factors which may be affected by water and soil conservation measures, water retardant structures and any existing project works or improvements; to utilize the basic information, data and conclusions established by this study in the planning and evaluation of present and future water and water-related soil conservation measures, including small watershed improvement projects, in the State as a whole, and particularly in the area of the lower coastal plains of North Carolina.

Sec. 2.  For the above objects and related purposes, there is hereby appropriated to the Department from General Fund Revenues nine thousand dollars ($9,000.00) for the fiscal year 1963-64 and the additional sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) for the fiscal year 1964-65. These funds may be expended by the Department of Water Resources through its Division of Navigable Waterways or otherwise, cooperatively with the Soil Conservation Service or other State and Federal agencies and an agreement for the study may be made and entered into between the Department and the Soil Conservation Service or other appropriate State and Federal agency.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1963.