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Girls play on a soccer fields near the L.V. Sutton Complex operated by Duke Energy in Wilmington, N.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Members of the Flemington Road community near the plant, feel the facility could be polluting well water with spill off and seepage from large coal ash ponds. (AP Photo/Randall Hill)

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Photo shows the L.V. Sutton Complex operated by Duke Energy from the Sutton Lake landing in Wilmington, N.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Members of the Flemington Road community near the plant, feel the facility could be polluting well water with spill off and seepage from large coal ash ponds. (AP Photo/Randall Hill)

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Flemington Road community neighbors Sam Malpass, left, and Kenneth Sandlin of Wilmington, N.C.,, walk through former hunting grounds near their homes on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. The two are part of a small community near the L.V. Sutton Complex operated by Duke Energy they feel has polluted well water from spill off and seepage from large coal ash ponds. The L.V. Sutton Complex operated by Duke Energy is in the background. (AP Photo/Randall Hill)

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A stand of trees damaged in the worst ice storm in South Carolina in a decade is seen near Lodge, S.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Officials estimate the storm damage could rival the nearly $100 million in timber damage caused by a storm in 2004. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

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A stand of trees damaged in the worst ice storm in South Carolina in a decade is seen near Lodge, S.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Officials estimate the storm damage could rival the nearly $100 million in timber damage caused by a storm in 2004. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

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A stand of trees damaged in the worst ice storm in South Carolina in a decade is seen near Smoaks, S.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Officials estimate the storm damage could rival the nearly $100 million in timber damage caused by a storm in 2004. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

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Tim Adams, the resource development division director for the South Carolina Forestry Commission, shows a map during an interview in his office in Columbia, S.C., on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. The map shows where snow and rain affected South Carolina earlier this month during the worst winter storm to hit the state in a decade. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

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A stand of trees damaged in the worst ice storm in South Carolina in a decade is seen near Smoaks, S.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Officials estimate the storm damage could rival the nearly $100 million in timber damage caused by a storm in 2004. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)