Read the full article by Christine Zhu (NC Newsline).
“Environmentalists have filed a lawsuit against Robeson County to stop a landfill from contaminating drinking water with pollutants.
The Robeson County Landfill is infiltrating the county’s public water system with PFAS, or forever chemicals, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has allowed the landfill to expand over the years, so it now takes up 537 acres near the town of St. Pauls.
Across the street from the landfill, the Rocco Water Treatment Plant sources its water exclusively from four groundwater wells — all of which are located within 4,500 feet of the landfill, the lawsuit reads.
More than 67,000 people across the county rely on the water system.
The Southern Environmental Law Center filed the lawsuit on behalf of St. Pauls Community Association for Progress, a grassroots organization based in Robeson County, for endangering the health and wellbeing of community members.”…