Lead and water - two words none of us like to hear together - but it’s a concern one western North Carolina community is facing.
On this week’s kicker, we take a deeper look at a story Carolina Public Press has been following for a few months now - the subject of a shooting range in Brevard operated by the police department.
Our reporting started after we got a press release about a federal indictment filed in September in Asheville’s U.S. District Court naming Brevard public works director David S. Lutz in the mishandling of lead-laden soil from the city’s abandoned police department firing range.
This isn’t the first time our reporting team has investigated the environmental impact of shooting ranges. We’ve covered a proposal for a shooting range near Lake James and a ban on shooting ranges in the Croatan forest.
On this show, Dan DeWitt, our reporter who first brought us this story out of Brevard.
and Gray Jernigan, southern regional director & green riverkeeper for
MountainTrue
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