The Colon Mine is five miles north of Sanford; under a recent settlement, the former clay mine will not receive coal ash, as previously permitted. (Map: DEQ)
Coal ash will not be disposed of in a former clay mine in Lee County, according to a settlement between three environmental groups, Charah, Inc., and the NC Department of Environmental Quality.
After a five-year legal battle, Charah has agreed that it would not deposit ash in the Colon mine, five miles north of Sanford, in Lee County. The state had originally permitted Charah to put 8 million tons of coal ash on the 411-acre site.
Active Energy Renewable Power occupies a 415,000-square-foot building that used to house Alamac American Knits. The company, which plans to manufacture wood pellets, is allegedly discharging wastewater without a permit. (File photo: Lisa Sorg)
Active Energy Renewable Power, which plans to operate a large wood pellet plant in Lumberton, in Robeson County, faces a potential lawsuit for discharging polluted wastewater for nearly 500 days into the Lumber River and a tributary.
The Southern Environmental Law Center, representing Winyah Rivers, formally notified the company on Dec. 10 that it intended to sue under the Clean Water Act. The company has 60 days to respond.
Extensive soil sampling at a section of the Navassa Superfund site found several portions of the area aren’t fit for residential use without remediation. In pink, portions of the site that failed to meet residential use standards. Image edited to fit dimensions. (Port City Daily photo/Courtesy EPA)
NAVASSA The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to redraw portions of the Navassa Superfund site after soil sampling found some sections of the former creosote plant are unsuitable for residential use.
In early 2020, the EPA recommended taking no action to remidiate about 100 acres on the site, which would have freed up the former Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation for redevelopment.