Perchloroethylene Contamination Cleanup Begins in North Carolina
The estimated decade-long, $80 million project is expected to include as many as 1,200 locations.
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NCDENR) has begun an $80 million project to clean up ground water contamination at as many as 1,200 current and abandoned dry-cleaning establishments that used the suspected cancer-causing solvent perchlorethylene.