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After receiving 350 public comments, DEQ “withdraws” from proposed Special Order by Consent with Alcoa
Alcoa/Badin Business Park violated its discharged permit limits for cyanide and fluoride leaving Outfall 005, which flows into Little Mountain Creek. The creek ultimately connects with Lake Tillery, a drinking water reservoir, about six miles downstream. Alcoa had proposed pumping the contaminated water to Outfall 012, where cyanide and fluoride will flow into Badin Lake. The company […]
United States, North Carolina Aluminum Industry -
State denies Alcoa’s Special Order by Consent to discharge contaminants into Badin Lake
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has denied Alcoa’s Special Order by Consent to discharge contaminants, including cyanide and fluoride, into Badin Lake. “The Badin Business Park SOC, as drafted, will not move forward,” DEQ spokesperson Anna Gurney said in an emailed statement to the Stanly News & Press. “We are in active conversations […]
United States, North Carolina Aluminum Industry -
Group creates petition to highlight contamination of Badin Lake
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Major sources of industrial fluoride emissions are aluminum production plants (see ATSDR 2003). The Badin Lake issue in North Carolina: “Alcoa would divert contaminants, including cyanide and fluoride, from its current discharge point… into Badin Lake.” In describing fluoride the author states, “Exposure to high levels of fluoride could potentially […]
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Just add water: Alcoa proposes discharging cyanide [and fluoride] into Badin Lake
Badin Lake is a popular fishing and swimming destination. It is also a drinking water supply for the Badin, New London and Albemarle in Stanly County. (File photo: Lisa Sorg) To try to comply with state water quality requirements, the company has a creative, if dubious solution. A proposed deal between Alcoa and the NC […]
United States, North Carolina Aluminum Industry -
Baron & Budd File 87 Additional Suits Against the Chemours Company and Dupont for Groundwater Contamination Near Fayetteville, NC
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The nationally recognized attorneys from Baron & Budd, P.C. alongside Seagle Law have filed lawsuits against the Chemours Company and Dupont on behalf of 87 individuals who own property near the Fayetteville Works plant. These lawsuits have been filed as part of a consolidated action where hundreds of similar lawsuits are currently […]
United States, North Carolina Perfluorinated chemicals -
Arkema to build novel hydrofluoric acid facility
Arkema and Nutrien will build an anhydrous hydrogen fluoride facility at Nutrien’s site in Aurora, North Carolina, that will use by-product fluorine–containing minerals from phosphate mining as raw material rather than traditional mined fluorspar. Arkema will pay for the $150 million facility, which will supply the firm’s fluorine chemicals plant in Calvert City, Kentucky. Arkema […]
United States, North Carolina Phosphate Industry -
Arkema invests in U.S. anhydrous hydrogen fluoride production
Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) has announced a long-term partnership with Nutrien Ltd, the largest integrated agricultural company in the world, for the supply of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride to Arkema’s Calvert City (Kentucky) site. This project has many advantages, as it secures a competitive access to anhydrous hydrogen fluoride, the main raw material for fluorine chemistry, […]
United States, North Carolina Chemical Industry Greenhouse/Ozone Gases -
Agencies that keep fluoridating county water deserve applause
Fairmont Water Department employee Kevin Taylor, left, Town Manager Katrina Tatum and Water Department employee Ronnie Seals, right, accept a CDC Water Fluoridation Quality Award from Tillie Clark, regional state dental hygienist. Corey Walters, assistant director of Lumberton’s Public Works Department, accepts a CDC Water Fluoridation Quality Award from Tillie Clark, regional state dental hygienist. […]
United States, North Carolina Fluoridation award -
Two years after fluoride spill exceeded federal limits, CFPUA resumes adding chemical at Richardson Plant
In April of 2018, approximately 30,000 customers north of Wilmington were told not to drink or cook with their water by the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority. (Port City Daily photo | FILE) NEW HANOVER COUNTY — Nearly two years ago, 30,000 customers of the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority awoke to robocalls and an […]
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CFPUA resumes adding fluoride to drinking water
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – Starting Tuesday, CFPUA will resume adding fluoride to drinking water coming from the Richardson Water Treatment Plant. The Richardson plant serves customers in northern New Hanover County, including Murrayville, Wrightsboro, Porters Neck, and parts of Castle Hayne and Ogden. Its source water comes from groundwater wells. Drinking fluoridated water keeps teeth […]
United States, North Carolina
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