This Land, Your Land

The News & Observer reports that everyone wants to clean up pollution at Jordan Lake but no one wants to pay the price. Existing rules put about a quarter of the $2 billion price tag on the City of Durham, though the 1,700-square-mile Jordan watershed includes all or parts of eight counties, from Guilford through Wake, and such cities and towns as Greensboro, Burlington, Graham, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Apex and Cary.

The 46,768-acre Jordan Lake provides drinking water to Apex and Cary, and is home to the Jordan Lake State Recreation Area, which is nine sites with popular boat ramps and campgrounds, and the Corps of Engineers site at the dam, which includes a visitors center, an observation deck and bank fishing below the spillway. Much of the land surrounding the lake is state game lands, as well.