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This is a list of Superfund sites in North Carolina designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. . The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations
The salty wastewater contains dissolved solids like sulfates and chlorides, which sewage and drinking water plants are unable to remove. West Virginia has asked sewage treatment plants to not accept frack water after regulators determined that the levels of dissolved solids in drinking water exceeded government standards. [29]
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.
The Western North Carolina mountains as seen from Sunset Rock in Highlands, North Carolina. The mountains of North Carolina may be conveniently classed as four separate chains: The Great Smoky Mountains – also called the "Smokies". The Blue Ridge Mountains – North Carolina's largest mountain range, the Blue Ridge run across the state in a ...
Nationally, COVID-19 levels are rising. More than half of states in the U.S., including North Carolina, are reporting “very high” levels of SARS-CoV-2 viral activity in wastewater.. At least ...
North Fork Reservoir is a freshwater reservoir in Black Mountain, North Carolina, [1] near Swannanoa. It was created by damming the north fork of the Swannanoa River [ 2 ] to provide a source of water for Asheville, North Carolina . [ 3 ]
From Wednesday to Friday, the office said that there were more than 8 inches of rain across the western North Carolina mountains, with some areas seeing a foot or more. The highest rainfall total ...
This Gaston County-operated park includes a playground, four lighted softball/little league fields, four lighted soccer fields, and a mountain bike trail. Next to the park is an abandoned chemical plant that produced dyes and pigments. The facility was turned into a superfund site after many leaks with the on site wastewater treatment plant.