Source: Taft Wireback, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 1/26/17


Researchers recently gave a clean bill of health to farmland and crops along the Dan River in a two-year study that found no lingering adverse effects from Duke Energy’s 2014 coal ash spill near Eden. A study team from N.C. State’s crop and soil sciences department sampled agricultural land along a 57-mile stretch of the river, both upstream and downstream from the spill at the utility’s now-demolished Dan River Steam Station in February 2014.

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