Ferry Monitoring Successful on Outer Banks:
Other States to Follow North Carolina's Lead

IN THE WAKE of the overwhelming success of FerryMon (ferry monitoring) in North Carolina's Pamlico Sound in the Outer Banks, regions in New York, Massachusetts, Delaware and California are fitting their local ferries with water sampling and oceanographic instruments similar to those used in North Carolina.

FerryMon enables ferries to take water samples every three minutes. That information is mapped out and shared with the State Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

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