The North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program (NCEEP) is partnering with UNRBA to involve local stakeholders, develop "atlases" of potential restoration projects to improve and protect water quality and aquatic habitat, and help implement projects. Our efforts to conduct this work in the Swift Creek watershed are currently getting underway.
In 2005, NC EEP completed a Local Watershed Plan for Upper Swift Creek. A brief fact sheet about the project is also available.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Wake County, Raleigh, Cary, Garner and Apex jointly developed (with the North Carolina Division of Water Quality) and adopted the Swift Creek Land Management Plan to manage development in the Swift Creek watershed, which contains Lake Wheeler and Lake Benson watersheds. NC Session Law 1998-192 made this plan binding on local governments.