Entries by Swamp Merchant

Raleigh based company trying to remove dam on Neuse River

RALEIGH— A dam on the Neuse River that some say causes hazardous conditions in the water could be removed. Triangle News 14 Content – RS Interview Another proposal has been made to take down the Milburnie Dam, near where two children died this summer. While some feel the move is necessary to make the Neuse […]

First responder in Neuse River drownings: Water was unsafe

RALEIGH, N.C. — A Wake County sheriff’s deputy who jumped into the Neuse River Monday afternoon in a desperate rescue effort said the water was rough and murky when two children drowned near the Old Milburnie Dam. “I took off my uniform and everything I had on to try to locate them,” Master Deputy Kenneth Kay […]

Two children drown in Neuse River

RALEIGH, N.C. — After a 4-hour search Monday, dive teams found the bodies of two children who drowned in the Neuse River in Raleigh, police said. The 10-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy, who were cousins, were fishing with family members at the Old Milburnie Dam, just north of the New Bern Avenue Bridge, on Monday afternoon. At […]