Coal Ash Contamination Confirmed, North Carolina Residents Warned Not To Drink Their Water:
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Fears of Contamination Confirmed, North Carolina Residents Warned Not To Drink Their Water
Sherry Gobble has been wary of drinking the tap water in her neighborhood for more than a year.
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On Monday, her fears were confirmed. Nineteen households and a church in her community of Dukeville, North Carolina were sent letters by the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) warning them not to drink or cook with well water due to elevated levels of toxic heavy metals, the Associated Press reported. Like Gobble’s home, each is located within a quarter mile of a coal ash pond owned by Duke Energy.
The letters sent to Dukeville residents were part of a statewide testing of private drinking water wells near Duke Energy-owned coal ash dumps. That undertaking was sparked by an 82,000-ton coal ash spill from one of Duke’s storage ponds last year, which contaminated water.
In all, those tests conducted by DENR showed contamination of 87 private drinking water wells for households located near eight Duke plants across the state, the AP reported. The DENR tests only looked for contaminants found in coal ash — things like mercury, manganese, arsenic, and vanadium — and found of elevated levels of various chemicals depending on the location.
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Hey, you don't expect the State (much less Duke) to fund an independent study
on this stuff when they can get a much bigger test sample for free?
Don't tell me you're one of those Commie Socialist folks who believes that the
health of the people means more than the profits of the 0.1%?
Thank gawd coal and fracking wastes are "natural."
I think most people would prefer not to have any toxins in their drinking water, radioactive or not, but we as a society are not willing to trade our current high energy economic system for one that's less damaging to the earth and the human spirit.
Every dollar is sacred, every life is not.
