The concern is whether contaminated water was also released into the canal, which flows into an unnamed tributary that feeds the Cape Fear River, a drinking water source for several cities.
A new poll finds that almost 80 percent of North Carolinians think Duke Energy alone should pay for the clean-up efforts from the recent coal ash spill on the Dan River.
“With eight candidates, and all of them so closely bunched together, it is looking more and more likely that this is going to be headed for a run-off…”
“We are going to be taking a comprehensive look at all of the infrastructure at these sites so that we can make sure that these types of spills, like the one that happened in Eden, never happen again.”