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Cape Fear Public Utility Authority (Wilmington-New Hanover County) Charlotte Water; Durham Public Works Department; Greensboro Water Resources Department; Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) Raleigh Public Utilities Department; Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Utilities Division
The breach in the earthen dams allowed for water to rush into several coal ash storage areas where roughly 400,000 cubic yards (310,000 m 3) of coal ash was stored. [2] Once the water entered the storage areas the coal ash was able to flow out of the storage areas into the Sutton Lake and then into the Cape Fear River.
The Cape Fear River is a 191.08-mile-long (307.51 km) [5] blackwater river in east-central North Carolina. It flows into the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Fear, from which it takes its name. The river is formed at the confluence of the Haw River and the Deep River (North Carolina) in the town of Moncure, North Carolina.
In 2017, the public learned the Fayetteville Works plant owned by DuPont and then spin-off company Chemours had for decades discharged tough-to-remove industrial chemicals into the Cape Fear River ...
Cape Fear is a coastal plain and Tidewater region of North Carolina centered about the city of Wilmington. [2] The region takes its name from the adjacent Cape Fear headland , as does the Cape Fear River which flows through the region and empties into the Atlantic Ocean near the cape.
The Cape Fear Memorial Bridge carries U.S. 17, U.S. 76 and U.S. 421 across the Cape Fear River between Brunswick County and downtown Wilmington, which opened in 1969.
The site contains two General Electric boiling water reactors, which are cooled by water collected from the Cape Fear River and discharged into the Atlantic Ocean. Duke Energy Progress is the majority owner (81.7%) and operator of the Brunswick nuclear plant. The North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency owns the remaining 18.3%.