In December 2000, the County Board of Commissioners adopted the first Pitt County Hazard Mitigation Plan - one of the first plans to be completed within the State of North Carolina.
On December 9, 1999, the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission adopted rules to protect 50-foot wide riparian buffers along waterways in both the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico River Basins.
In 2001, Pitt County's Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program won the Local Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program Award for Outstanding Local Programs.
During 2000, the Environmental Management Commission (EMC) adopted a set of nonpoint source rules under the Tar-Pamlico Nutrient Sensitive Waters Strategy.
Pitt County Soil Survey Issued November 1974 by the United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service in cooperation with North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station