News | October 9, 2013

Authority Objects to Duke Energy Blocking Access to 11,000 Acres of Wilmington Groundwater

The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority Board today objected to a provision in a proposed agreement by Duke Energy that would set a 17-square-mile area of groundwater–an area that reaches to downtown Wilmington–off-limits to the public water system because of toxic coal ash pollution from Duke Energy’s Sutton plant. Read more in the press release.