One billion years ago, volcanoes bulged from the landscape and hot lava coated the future towns of Monroe and Marshville, Waxhaw and Wingate in Union County. This region is known as the state’s “slate belt” — rocks formed by volcanoes. Where there is a slate belt, there is often naturally occurring arsenic. That arsenic can be sloughed into groundwater, where ...
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