NC - TCE in Fuquay-Varina Groundwater

Silence fueled their skepticism

BY TED RICHARDSON
Cary News (NC)
November 23, 2010

FUQUAY-VARINA - On a cold night four years ago, Denise Copper sterilized
the inside of a Mason jar and attached a long rope. She donned a black
sweatshirt and drove to the end of her street, near an open field below
a fiber plant owned by Guilford Mills.

She stepped cautiously through the wet grass, toward the middle of the
field, approaching a monitoring well that Guilford had dug to determine
the extent of groundwater contamination below its property.

But before she could get to the well with her jar, she saw a flashlight
moving toward her. She scurried back to her car with no water sample, no
new information. Just a close call with a security guard...[MORE}