RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — Environmental groups sued the city of Asheboro, North Carolina, on Tuesday, claiming that it was collaborating with manufacturers to discharge carcinogenic materials into the drinking water of nearly 900,000 residents.
According to Cape Fear River Watch and the Haw River Assembly in their suit, the city of Asheboro’s wastewater treatment plant has been discharging 1,4-dioxane into the Haskett Creek, upstream of drinking water supplies.
“Asheboro has, for at least a decade, allowed StarPet and other industrial users to send highly contaminated wastewater into the city’s wastewater plant,” the groups said. “The city welcomed this pollution despite knowing it would flow straight through its wastewater plant and into downstream drinking water supplies.”…