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Wednesday, 10 March 2021 14:31
NC authorities mulling relaxed regulations on Pigeon River pollutants
Knox News: Sam Venable: Now is not the time to backslide on Pigeon River health
Good piece here on a renewed threat to the Pigeon River, which threads from North Carolina into Tennessee. Your friendly neighborhood Hellbender Press editor was a raft guide there for a while — people loved to be on that river, and it is a true environmental and economic success story.
But after years of environmental improvements to the river and accompanying economic gains, the state of North Carolina is considering relaxing standards for a nearby paper mill’s pollutants.
The river is much healthier than it was some 25 years ago, when what was then Champion Paper regularly polluted the river with a toxic mess that included dioxins. An area of Cocke County along the river is forever known as “Widowville.”
The state is considering loosening the discharge standards for the paper mill’s current owner. A public hearing on the matter is set for April 14.
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