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| | New Hanover County, N.C. |
 | | --> New Hanover County, N.C. Dec 1, 2003 12:00 PM A decade ago, treated leachate from the New Hanover County, N.C., landfill was toxic enough in the wintertime that it was responsible for killing at least one fat-head minnow during a state toxicity test. |
 | | Now, since the county has constructed the state's first leachate-treatment wetlands, a variety of wildlife is thriving in an environment created to treat the effluent. |
 | | The New Hanover County, N.C., Department of Environmental Management (DEM) began investigating leachate-treatment options during the early 1990s, following the state test that revealed that effluent from the county's landfill was too toxic to continue discharging to the Cape Fear River. |
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