Source: Lisa Sorg, NC POLICY WATCH, 3/30/21



Colonial Pipeline’s own tests indicate high levels of PFAS that could be linked to clean-up efforts, but state regulators say they need more data Mysterious discrepancies in test results between Colonial Pipeline and the NC Department of Environmental Quality have raised questions about the origin of toxic perfluorinated compounds — PFAS — found in material used at a major gasoline spill in Huntersville. On Aug. 14, 2020, a breach in a segment of a pipeline owned Colonial Pipeline below the Oehler Nature Preserve spilled an estimated 1.2 million gallons of gasoline, the largest onshore accident of its kind in the U.S. in more than 20 years. As part of its response,

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