Source: John Henderson, FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER, 10/13/18

The splintered trees and other debris that choked the flood-swollen Cape Fear River after Hurricane Florence was clear evidence of the storm’s historic destruction, but what you couldn’t see in the muddy water should be the biggest cause for alarm, experts say. The trillions of gallons of rain dumped during the storm in September flushed contaminants from hundreds of thousands of acres into the river basin, from animal waste on farms to industrial chemicals to human feces.

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