April 11, 2009 - Both of Richland County’s commercial landfills have polluted groundwater near communities that depend on private wells for drinking water, state records show.
The groundwater contamination occurred years ago and has not spread off the site of at least one of the landfills, the one on Screaming Eagle Road, say state regulators and a disposal site operator. It is unknown whether contamination from the other disposal site, the Northeast Landfill, has left the property’s boundary.
All told, landfills across South Carolina — from nuclear waste dumps to disposal sites on military bases — have polluted the groundwater in 125 places, according to DHEC’s 2008 groundwater contamination inventory.
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
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