Duke Energy to hand out bottled water in North Carolina after wells polluted
Source: The Guardian
Duke Energy, the largest electric utility in the US, has agreed to provide dozens of families in North Carolina with bottled water after state testing found private wells near sites where the company stores coal waste contaminated with potentially toxic chemicals.
Over the last week, the states department of environment and natural resources mailed out 87 letters to residents who live near sites where Duke has stored tons of coal ash the toxic slurry left over from burning coal in unlined pits. Those letters say that chemicals associated with coal ash including vanadium, which can cause respiratory problems, as well as carcinogens such as hexavalent chromium had been found at levels that exceed state standards.
In order to reduce or eliminate this increased health risk, the North Carolina Division of Public Health recommends that your well water not be used for drinking and cooking, the letters read.
A lot of residents are really concerned because some of them have been drinking from these supplies for decades, said Sam Perkins, who works with North Carolina nonprofit Catawba Riverkeeper and who has been visiting residents affected by the contamination over the last week. You start thinking back about any health problems and you have to wonder what theyre related to.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/28/duke-energy-bottled-water-north-carolina-wells-polluted
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Those plants aren't safe.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)Stupid APOCALYPSE !!
onecaliberal
(32,878 posts)cstanleytech
(26,306 posts)if it was I imagine it would have said.
Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)is very safe. So they most sponge bathe with bottle water. Thanks so much Duke Energy.
cstanleytech
(26,306 posts)louis-t
(23,296 posts)cstanleytech
(26,306 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Just throw the peasants crumbs.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)DebJ
(7,699 posts)So sad our media here just sucks.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)More than likely, Duke will be made to build out water lines to those with toxic wells.
cstanleytech
(26,306 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)when the pesky humans annoy them too much.
Plunder & Whoops, Plunder & Whoops. That's America.
angrychair
(8,727 posts)Just follow WI and FL lead and fire your DNR scientists or restrict them from ruling on so-called "water contamination" and the wells won't be deemed to be polluted. If its not polluted, its safe to drink.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)The charge of $1 a bottle comes later.
They_Live
(3,238 posts)from drought ridden California?
we are all so screwed.