The water hasn't improved, they just moved the goal posts:
Months after telling the owners of hundreds of wells near coal ash ponds that their water was unsafe to drink, North Carolina public health and environmental officials are now telling them the water is fine. The chemicals in the water haven't changed, but the state's guidelines have.
Most of the "do not drink" advisories were based on levels of vanadium or hexavalent chromium, a known carcinogen, found in the water. DHHS had set its threshold for vanadium at 0.3 micrograms per liter and chromium-6 at 0.07 micrograms per liter – levels for a one in a million increase in cancer risk. DHHS has agreed to raise its thresholds to 20 micrograms per liter for vanadium and 10 micrograms per liter for chromium-6.
So what is the new risk level? One in ten thousand? Pretty sure math doesn't come into play, when you're dealing with a (human) organism's ability to filter toxins. But it's okay, because Tom Reeder says so:
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