PITTSBORO, N.C. — A nearby town is suing a Burlington chemical company over alleged chemical dumping.
The town of Pittsboro said Apollo Chemical violated the Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
The city of Burlington said the company dumped toxic chemicals into the Haw River. City investigators said they found 1,4-Dioxane in the water — a compound that can cause cancer.
"Our water sources are not connected to the Haw River. The South Burlington Wastewater Treatment Plant discharges into the Great Alamance Creek, just upstream of where it discharges to the Haw River. Anybody downstream of that potentially could be affected," City of Burlington's Water Resources Director Bob Patterson said.
Pittsboro gets its water directly from the river.
Town leaders said they haven't discovered levels of the toxin in their water just yet.
Burlington ordered the company to stop production and asked the state to force Apollo to follow a treatment program.
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