Source: Bruce Henderson, NEWS & OBSERVER, 4/1/19


North Carolina’s environment department ordered Duke Energy on Monday to excavate millions of tons of coal ash from six power plants, including two near Charlotte on lakes Norman and Wylie. Ash has been mixed with water and stored in open, unlined ponds at Duke’s coal-fired power plants for decades. But a 2014 ash spill into the Dan River, near the Virginia line, exposed the potential for heavy metals in ash to contaminate water, including the groundwater near those ponds.

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