As the flooding from Hurricane Florence dissipates, North Carolina residents could face significant public-health and environmental crisis after at least 17 animal waste pits, coal ash facilities, and human sewage plants across the state released millions of gallons of toxic liquid into nearby communities.
On an aerial tour Monday of pig country, housing the nation's largest hog producing counties, many anaerobic lagoons or manure lagoons, a human-made outdoor earthen basin filled with animal waste, survived the devastating hurricane, but some were badly damaged with breaches flowing into local water systems, said Bloomberg.
“We don’t think it’s a good idea for people to be swimming around in poop,” said John Rumpler, clean water program director for Environment America, a Colorado-based advocacy group. “It’s a pretty serious public-health risk that people should be concerned about.”
Five days after Hurricane Florence made landfall, much of North Carolina's low-lying eastern region remains flooded and effectively shut down.
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Any possibility that they could convert pig waste into to dried out blocks for fuel. You know, like cow patties which were used down on the farm to heat up the hot water for bath nite. Just a thought.
Yeah and the municipal waste management facilities are flooding over as well. This disaster reminds us how fragile and close the to being third world the neglected infrastructure in this nation is. No one want's regulation until the shit is backing up in their property the roads are flooded damns are failing and bridges crumbling. Come on Donald let's Guild America like one of your towers and golf courses. People that have never left the continent and visited other first World Nations have no clue how backwards and crumbling things are here. They just way flags and drink the koolaid. They have no idea how they are Global looser's. Cling to those ill informed righteous attitudes and Mayberry and Disney fantasy's . It's all a part of the hyper capitalist dream those that make out well are happy secure and justified but the party is tolerating too many do nothing looser's that cling to values and have no real power or substance
Love it. Couldn’t have said it any better
He probably could have said it better himself if he wasn't drinking so much.
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