"NAVASSA, N.C. — With floodwaters continuing to rise in the wake of Hurricane Florence, state officials and environmentalists are closely monitoring the breach of a dam that has flooded a hazardous stockpile of coal ash, some of which has spilled into the Cape Fear River.
On Friday, Duke Energy shut down a power plant near Wilmington after a dam breach between 100 and 200 feet wide, at the south end of Sutton Lake, allowed floodwaters to swamp two basins containing huge stockpiles of arsenic-laced ash.
Duke’s L.V. Sutton facility has been a focus of increasing concern for environmentalists and regulators since last week, when rains from Hurricane Florence caused a coal ash landfill at the site to erode, spilling waste onto a local roadway."
Glenn Thrush and Kendra Pierre-Louis report for the New York Times September 21, 2018.
SEE ALSO:
"Toxic Spills Highlight Trump’s Deregulation of Coal Plant Waste" (Bloomberg)
"NC River Swirls With Gray Muck Near Flooded Coal Ash Dump" (Associated Press)
"Dam Breach Sends Toxic Coal Ash Flowing Into A Major North Carolina River" (Washington Post)
