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Originally Posted by CarolinaWoman
There is a minor... well depends on one's idea of minor problem on Campbell Road right now. There is a contaminated industrial site on Campbell Road. DHEC held community meetings with over a 100 Campbell Rd neighbors attending. Both deep and shallow groundwater have been contaminated, as well as soil under the building, according to DHEC project manager Angie Jones. DHEC called the meeting to discuss the clean-up of hazardous chromium, which is isolated to the former industry's property.
Hexavalent chromium is toxic. It is a carcinogen, and chronic exposure to it can cause permanent eye injury, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Web site.
One of our neighbors attended the last meeting and Tom Smith our York County Council Rep was there too. DHEC wants to just leave it alone .... BUT the people attending the meeting wants it cleaned up. If it spreads it will contaminate all the groundwater. Even though the site is closed the company is still a world wide company and has the money and should be required to clean up their toxic mess.
Campbell Crossing is a beautiful development but it is near the industrial site with the problem on Campbell Road.
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I can appreciate wanting to help people by informing them about the cleanup site on Campbell road . . . here is some additional information (posted in another thread as well).
I live on Campbell road and here are the facts and what you should know about this site (I attended the public meetings and so have been briefed by DHEC on the situation).
The site is roughly 5 acres in size and the contamination is contained to the site - there have been NO elevated levels of chromium detected at any of the off-site monitoring wells since DHEC started monitoring them in the 90's. If I remember correctly they monitor the on-site wells quarterly and the off-site wells at least yearly (they may be quarterly as well can't remember for sure). I live 1.3 miles away from the site on Campbell road and was concerned initially at the meeting . . . until a guy, probably in his mid 70's stood up and introduced himself as the guy who lives *right across the street* from the chromium site (literally). He mentioned that he'd owned his farm across the street since *before* the factory was built in the 50's and he's lived there ever since so he pre-dates the site! He was of course one of the monitoring wells that DHEC was testing frequently and he has never had chromium detected in *his* well and he seemed in quite good health for his age!
I also recently had my water tested just for peace of mind. The tests came back as <.005mg/L which basically means they didn't detect anything.
In case you are curious you can see the EPA standard for acceptable levels of Chromium here:
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.html (you can see the acceptable level is .1mg/L so we are a couple orders of magnitude below that).
One final point that was mentioned at the meetings. The under ground water tables flow towards the lake (Lake Wylie) and
away from all of the closest neighborhoods (Vander Lakes and Campbells Crossing) so even if the chromium should for some reason make it into the local water supply after all these decades - it would conceivably flow towards Lake Wylie (which is about 1.5 miles - 2 miles away from the site) and away from the neighborhoods which are upstream from the site and farther away from the lake.
The net net here is - there is no risk to Vander Lakes or Campbells Crossing home owners.
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