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1331
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The N.C. Pesticide Board has developed the Generic Pesticide State Management Plan (SMP) to manage pesticides the U.S. EPA designates as threats to North Carolina's groundwater.
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2239
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An NCSU study of older, unlined swine lagoons in the state's coastal plain revealed that over half of them leak contaminants into groundwater. The researchers recommended using synthetic liners in cases where self-sealing lagoons are inadequate.
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2240
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A comparison of animal waste regulations relating to drinking water wells in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia reveals that North Carolina has the least restrictive regulations of the four states.
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3191
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Testing by state health authorities found that one-third of 948 drinking water wells located near livestock farms had contaminants, and one in ten exceeded safe standards. Nitrate was the prime pollutant.
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Currents (NoCar TD 171.3 P3 P35x), Vol. 16 Issue 2, Winter 1997, p5, il
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34079
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There are approximately 222,000 underground storage tanks in North Carolina, thirty-six-percent of which are at risk of failing and leaking their contents into the surrounding earth, threatening to contaminate groundwater. Cleanup of some major pollution incidents may be paid for by a federal trust fund established through Superfund legislation.
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34255
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On December 12, the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission approved holding public hearings on rules that will make permanent changes in the way soil and groundwater contamination from underground petroleum storage tanks must be assessed and cleaned up. The proposed rules require all sites to undergo risk assessment and establishes conditions under which cleanup will be required.
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34321
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In North Carolina, regulation and compliance of underground storage tanks is the responsibility of the Underground Storage Tanks Section of the North Carolina Division of Waste Management. About two-thousand tanks are temporarily closed because they have not been fully upgraded to meet the regulations. Because these tanks are privately owned, currently, the main goal of the Division is to identify the responsible parties and have the tanks permanently closed or upgraded.
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34331
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Much of groundwater contamination is contamination of aquifer soils by dense compounds that are not soluble in water. Among the nation’s leading scientists focusing on contaminant remediation are those in the Center for Multiphase Research in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. They have a strategy for cleaning up dense contaminants that involves floating pools by increasing the density of the underlying groundwater.