Opponents Urge EPA to Uphold Objection to Asheboro Permit
Those who spoke at the Environmental Protection Agency's hearing on Asheboro's wastewater permit urged the EPA to uphold its objection to the city's proposed permit with no effluent discharge limit for 1,4-dioxane into the drinking water supply of hundreds of thousands downstream.
North Carolinians from cities, towns and communities throughout the Cape Fear River Basin urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to uphold its objection to a municipal wastewater treatment plant’s proposed permit that excludes an effluent discharge limit for 1,4-dioxane into their drinking water sources.
Speakers at a public hearing asked the agency to force the state to reissue a permit that will limit discharges of the likely human carcinogen into surface waters that flow into tributaries of the Haw and Deep rivers, which converge to form the Cape Fear River.
One after another, speakers at a public hearing the EPA hosted last Wednesday night asked the agency to force the state to reissue a permit.
Author's summary: EPA faces pressure to limit 1,4-dioxane discharge.
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