Ian Green holds crayfish that died after chlorine-laden water was flushed from a water main into his creek.
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Ian Green holds a fish that died after chlorine-laden water was flushed from a water main into his creek.
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A creek on Ian Greene’s Guilford County property reached twice the county’s acceptable limit for chlorine after contractors improperly flushed a 9-mile section of a new water main that will serve Toyota’s nearby battery plant.
John Deem
Water is flushed from a section of new pipeline that will serve Toyota’s battery plant in Guilford County. Chlorine often is used to disinfect pipes, but must be cleared before they are activated.
JULIAN — Ian Greene was just 10 years old the first time he hiked to a tree-canopied creek on his godparents’ 25-acre tract in rural southern Guilford County.
John Deem covers climate change and the environment in the Triad and Northwest North Carolina. His work is funded by a grant from the 1Earth Fund and the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
A creek on Ian Greene’s Guilford County property reached twice the county’s acceptable limit for chlorine after contractors improperly flushed a 9-mile section of a new water main that will serve Toyota’s nearby battery plant.
Water is flushed from a section of new pipeline that will serve Toyota’s battery plant in Guilford County. Chlorine often is used to disinfect pipes, but must be cleared before they are activated.
