Sutton Lake Coal Ash (IMAGE)

Duke University

Sutton Lake Coal Ash

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High levels of coal ash solids in sediment from Sutton Lake suggest the North Carolina lake has been the site of multiple coal ash spills, most of them apparently unmonitored and unreported.

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Avner Vengosh, Duke University

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