A state transportation project to remove an old culvert over a Chowan County creek and replace it with one that will allow river herring to reach important spawning ground is being funded by a first-of-its-kind federal grant.
A decades’ old culvert over Pembroke Creek in Edenton will be replaced with a larger, prefabricated aluminum box culvert.
The new culvert will allow in more light, which fish prefer, and space for alewife and blueback herring that swim each spring from the Atlantic Ocean into the Albemarle and Pamlico sound basins to spawn before returning to the sea.