Tropical Storm Florence: Pollution threat now looms in SC with overflowing rivers, lakes

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The biggest worry is that rain will swell rivers so high that they will flood waste sites or that rain will wash toxins off contaminated land into rivers or lakes.

Sites being watched include a hazardous waste dump near Lake Marion, hog lagoons in the Pee Dee, contaminated coal-ash disposal basins near Columbia and Myrtle Beach, an unlined nuclear waste dump in Barnwell County and an atomic fuel factory in Richland County, near Congaree National Park.
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Unlike the Pinewood hazardous waste dump, the Barnwell County landfill still is operating, and some of its unlined burial trenches remain open and exposed to rainfall.

“Those could be fully inundated’’ by rain, Clements said. “That means more penetration (into) groundwater, which would be carrying radioactive materials.’’ - Greenville News

[Pachamama]

1. I am sure their Saviour Trump will be right on it with a solution soon...

This is really awful....wonder what the empathetic carrying leader will be doing to help the people of NC and SC....hopefully more than he did for Puerto Rico...not that it is that hard to do more than he did for Puerto Rico...

[DFW]

2. I'm sure Trump will honor those who went to clean up radioactive waste

He'll give them "glowing" recommendations, and then wonder why no one thinks he's a witty genius.

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4. "glowing" recommendations

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. an unlined nuclear waste dump i?????????

Wonder how much money it took to overcome any official objections to that idea.

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5. And one in a hurricane zone, no less.

I suppose it could be worse. They could have put the site on top of an active volcano. I'm sure the proper paperwork would be filled out.