LELAND, N.C. — Some residents in Brunswick County say leaders aren’t doing enough to get them safe water in what one international nonprofit group is calling a human rights “crisis.”
Some communities in Brunswick County still rely on well water despite the county’s rapid growth in recent years. At Monday night’s county commissioners meeting, residents and members of EarthRights International pushed county leaders to budget $14 million next year for new waterlines in the county.
Shirley Mangum lives in Leland’s Goodman Road neighborhood, off Highway 17, and has relied on well water since 1982. She said county leaders have done nothing to improve her water issues…