EPA to hold hearing in Asheboro regarding water quality
ASHEBORO — The Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public hearing next week to receive community input on water quality protection for nearly 900,000 North Carolinians whose drinking water might have been affected by dioxane contamination.
The hearing is scheduled from 6-9 p.m. Oct. 22 at Randolph Community College.
Based on information from Haw River Assembly, cancer-causing chemicals from been detected in water systems downstream of Asheboro for at least a decade. That Haw River Assembly says that Asheboro’s wastewater treatment plant dumps dioxane upstream from communities such as Sanford, Fayetteville and Wilmington. Other communities will soon be connected through Sanford’s water system, the Haw River Assembly says.
This is an opportunity for community members to provide input on water quality protection.
As part of the Haw River Assembly’s information: “Families have the right to know about contaminants in their water. It’s important to protect all our community members from toxic pollution, including those most vulnerable like children and pregnant women. Community members deserve protection from cancer-causing chemicals in their drinking water.”