Urge NC Officials to Reinstate Do-Not-Drink Advisory on Coal Ash Contaminated Well Water.

North Carolina’s highly respected state epidemiologist resigned last week because she says the McCrory Administration has misled the public over drinking water safety. Dr. Megan Davies wrote in her resignation that she could not work for “a Department and Administration that deliberately misleads the public.”

According to news reports, the state reversed its warnings about use of water from wells located near Duke Energy’s coal ash ponds three months after do-not-drink warnings were issued, and DE was having to supply homes with bottled water.

Then to try to justify that reversal, says Davies, the NC Department of Health created a “false narrative” condemning state toxicologist Ken Rudo for what they called his sole role in developing safety advisories.

Davies told the press she resigned right after NC DHHS published its editorial accusing Rudo of unprofessionalism and acting on his own in setting safety levels regarding hexavalent chromium, because she knew DHHS, itself, had been involved in that process.

While the state is now arguing over how much hexavalent chromium should be allowed in water, something that was supposedly already settled, families using these coal ash contaminated wells could be at risk of developing cancer and other serious health effects.

These families deserve to be protected from such risks and politically motivated decisions that attempt to downplay those risks. Sign this petition to urge NC officials to reinstate the do-not-drink advisory until they can provide reasonable proof that the water is safe for human use.