lake conestee

For decades, activists sounded the alarm about the potential toxic fallout of a dam breech at Lake Conestee. Finally, a wall to contain a failure is just about done.

The story of how a too-old dam holding too much toxic sludge is getting addressed is a win for citizens, lawmakers, and the press.

The walk out to the dam at Lake Conestee is a short downhill/uphill, past the remains of an old mill that died decades ago. That mill is the reason this…