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Surging floodwaters from Florence, now a tropical depression, have swept away part of a retaining wall holding back a pond of coal ash – which contains mercury, arsenic and other toxic substances – and have also overrun several lagoons of pig waste in North Carolina.
Surging floodwaters from Florence, now a tropical depression, have swept away part of a retaining wall holding back a pond of coal ash – which contains mercury, arsenic and other toxic substances – and have also overrun several lagoons of pig waste in North Carolina.
Along with pig poop. There are going to be some mighty sick folks because of this.
And flooded septic tanks, flooded central sewer systems and pet waste. Illness? Maybe not so much although there will likely be an uptick in strange skin rashes on the people who decided to walk through flood waters in flip flops and shorts. Also don't forget fuel oil that spilled from unsecured tanks that became rafts.
Surging floodwaters from Florence, now a tropical depression, have swept away part of a retaining wall holding back a pond of coal ash – which contains mercury, arsenic and other toxic substances – and have also overrun several lagoons of pig waste in North Carolina.
Dealing with ash wastes has been an ongoing issue.
There are thirty some of these ash dumps/ponds in North Carolina and every few years we are treated to new story of how a pipe burst or a retaining wall breached and toxins spilled into one river or another.
Every spill always begins with Duke Energy downplaying the extent of things, assuring everyone they have everything under control, that only a minimal amount of mercury, arsenic, etc, was released.
This rarely turns out to be accurate.
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