"Acetone, ethanol, 1,4-dioxane and methylene chloride were among contaminants found in a stream near Brenntag Mid-South’s chemical repackaging facility."
"DURHAM, N.C.—Brenntag Mid-South continues to amass serious environmental violations related to its chemical repackaging plant in East Durham, where state inspectors cited the company in November for failing to clean up leaking barrels on the property.
Recent testing also shows a chemical cocktail continues to enter a neighborhood stream that runs behind an elementary school, through a public park and flows into Third Fork Creek and Jordan Lake, the drinking water supply for more than a million people, according to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality.
City and state agencies have issued numerous violations to the billion-dollar company, but after more than two years of investigations, have yet to impose financial penalties.
A spokesman for the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality told Inside Climate News the agency “cannot comment on future enforcement actions, but it continues to work with Brenntag to receive data and ensure the completion of the actions required in last fall’s Notice of Violation, including some items with deadlines this month and in May.”"
