It is obvious from media and academia from The N&O editorial and Dec. 16 "Point of View" column of UNC-Chapel Hill scholars that the deterioration of the Neuse Basin ecosystem is the result of poor government (DENR and Department of Transportation) efforts of restoration through costly and duplicated mitigation measures to reduce nitrogen flux. While this theory may be partly true as narrated by your news articles and by the university scientists, we must not give up or slow down the efforts to restore this Neuse River basin ecosystems.
At the upper end of the Neuse River is the Falls Lake (about 25,000 acres), which is really "the umbilical cord" for the Research Triangle community wherein 450,000 citizens depend on this lake for drinking water. Let us restore the lake with participation of the community in the counties surrounding this essential water body.
Robert Y. George, Ph.D., Wake Forest
