VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Virginia Beach will resume using Lake Gaston for drinking water following tests that found no coal ash in a reservoir that feeds the lake.
The city stopped pumping water from the lake on Feb. 4. Two days earlier, a coal ash spill from a Duke Energy plant in North Carolina coated 70 miles of the Dan River in toxic sludge.
The Dan River is a tributary to the John H. Kerr Reservoir.
The Virginian-Pilot (https://bit.ly/1kkZEic ) reports that a memorandum written by Virginia Beach Public Utilities director Tom Leahy says tests by the city and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found no coal ash or unsafe arsenic levels in the reservoir.
Lake Gaston’s water quality will continue to be monitored.
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Information from: The Virginian-Pilot, https://pilotonline.com
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