As you drive across North Carolina you see signs with messages such as, “Entering the Cape Fear River Basin” or “Leaving the French Broad River Basin.” In all, North Carolina has 17 major river basins, natural topographical boundaries that determine how and where water flows. Some rivers direct their waters to the Atlantic while others in the western part of the state flow toward the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico.
In this episode, Exploring North Carolina examines these natural basins and their self-contained ecosystems that often hold fish, mussels, crayfish and other creatures endemic to only one basin and visits with state and municipal water experts and biologists to learn “basin basics.”
