State aids local conservation effort
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
By Chris Fitzsimon
Orange-Durham partners get grant Cheryl Johnston Sadgrove, Staff Writer Efforts to preserve woodlands along New Hope Creek on the Durham-Orange county line are paying off for local governments.
The state has set aside more than $1 million in the N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund to help pay for a former piece of Duke Forest and adjacent land, at Erwin and Pickett roads.
Durham County, Orange County, Chapel Hill and the city of Durham teamed up with the Triangle Land Conservancy and neighbors of the property in April to buy a 43-acre parcel of former Duke Forest for $1.5 million.
The land, for which a developer had planned houses, will instead become a part of a planned 15-mile urban greenway called the New Hope Corridor. (more…)
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