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PCBs NO Longer found in Lake Hartwell

The Greenville News reported that tests from the Department of Health and Environmental Control show no discernible levels of PCBs in treated water from systems that draw water from Lake Hartwell.

The Greenville News reported that tests from the Department of Health and Environmental Control show no discernible levels of PCBs in treated water from systems that draw water from Lake Hartwell.

More than three decades after 400,000 pounds of the carcinogen PCB were released into a creek that feeds Lake Hartwell, tests as recent as March find the chemical absent from water headed to kitchen faucets of 190,000 Upstate residents.

Data from 1994 through 2009 obtained by The Greenville News from the state Department of Health and Environmental Control under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act show no discernable levels of PCBs in treated water from systems in Anderson and Pickens counties that draw from Hartwell and the Twelve Mile River.

Testing by the agency in 1991 found PCBs above then-proposed federal standards in water from hydrants in the Easley-Central Water District that draws from the Twelve Mile, records show. Trace amounts also were found then at a residential tap.