Site selection, regulation and ongoing monitoring mitigates risk

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In: 27312, Bynum, Environment, Pittsboro
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Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:15:07 -0500
From: “Tony Blake”
Subject: upstream and downstream

The original upstream and downstream assertion is exemplified by the Chatham water inlet being downstream from the semi-lined Alamance County landfill that is on the banks of the Haw near Saxapahaw.
http://wikimapia.org/21434243/Alamance-County-Landfill as well as Stericycle’s medical waste disposal in Haw River http://go.hubbiz.com/Stericycle-Business-Consulting-Services-NC

Upstream from our neighbors to the southeast of course, is the old CPL/Progress energy ash pond that contains fly ash with chromium, arsenic, and silica at the confluence of the Haw and Deep rivers in Moncure.
http://www.chathamnc.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=1679
http://www.epa.gov/wastes/nonhaz/industrial/special/fossil/surveys2/pec_capefear_final.pdf

Maryphyllis is right; Site selection, regulation and ongoing monitoring mitigates risk. The question becomes how to measure risks and how to put in place the best possible state of the art designs and policies that take
advantage of new and better technologies and methods as they are discovered.

Chatham Park aside, history shows we can do better…..
http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/living-on-the-edge/Content?oid=2413072