{"id":37073,"date":"2025-07-25T19:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37073\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:53:09","slug":"endangered-species-survey-conducted-ahead-of-greenville-town-common-bulkhead-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37073\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered species survey conducted ahead of Greenville town common bulkhead construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Environmental experts were knee deep in the waters of the Tar River on Thursday hunting for endangered species. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The City of Greenville says it\u2019s all part of a requirement by the U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife Service ahead of any construction on the town common bulkhead replacement project. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The endangered species survey involves moving common mussels as well as searching for the elusive Tar River spinymussel and Neuse River waterdog, a rare salamander. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both of those are considered a critically endangered species found nowhere else but the Tar and Neuse River basins. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Construction on the $20-million project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2025\/07\/11\/preparations-greenville-town-common-construction-begin-next-week\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2025\/07\/11\/preparations-greenville-town-common-construction-begin-next-week\/\">will begin in August<\/a> and replace 1,600 feet of steel bulkhead that separates the park from the Tar River. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Environmental experts were knee deep in the waters of the Tar River on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2027,192,30280,30282,79,30281],"class_list":["post-37073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-endangered-species","tag-environment","tag-greenville-bulkhead-project","tag-neuse-river-waterdog","tag-science","tag-tar-river-spinymussel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}