Read the full article by Sammy Fretwell (The State).
“Cecilia Williams lives across a dusty lane from a farm that, for years, used waste sludge provided by a textile plant to fertilize crops.
Then in 2019, government agencies discovered that the land where the sludge had been applied was polluted with dangerous chemicals like those produced at the textile plant in Darlington County. They later found the drinking water her family relied on contained the same types of chemicals.
While those findings are enough for Williams to worry about, she can’t understand why South Carolina’s government – once it knew about the pollution on the old farm in 2019 – allowed more waste sludge to be spread on the agricultural fields along Journeys End Road.
‘It doesn’t make sense,’ Williams said. ‘If stuff is still in the ground and you put something else on top of it, what is that going to cause? Did they ever check?'”…