Source: Taft Wireback, NEWS & RECORD, 4/5/17


Two legislators filed a bill this week calling on the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to expand its study zone for the controversial pollutant hexavalent chromium in drinking water near some unnamed coal ash lagoons. State Rep. Dana Bumgardner and state Sen. Kathy Harrington, both Republicans from Gastonia, introduced the measure late Tuesday requiring further study of an unnamed neighborhood — apparently in or near their districts — to see whether drinking-water wells beyond a previous half-mile study limit have been affected by the chemical that can cause cancer.

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