More than half of the drinking water wells in central North Carolina could contain levels of hexavalent chromium above the state’s health advisory level, according to a new study by Duke University professor and scientist Avner Vengosh. And wells in Wake and Mecklenburg counties are at heightened risk of containing the known carcinogen. Although hexavalent ...
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