From our friends at CoalAshChronicles.com City of Danville using Duke Energy’s sampling results to soothe public fears over water contamination While the Danville, Va., water utility is reporting that the water in their city is fine, you might want to know that they’re making that statement based in part on water sample testing that was done by Duke Energy — the company is collecting the samples and processing them in their private lab at its McGuire nuclear plant in Huntersville, N.C. Barry Dunkley, the division director of water and wastewater treatment for Danville Utilities, tells Coal Ash Chronicles that the utility is also running tests with an independent laboratory. “We thought that was the right thing to do,” said Dunkley, but “we don’t have those test results back.” He said that Duke Energy has to be granted access to the water utility to sample water at the intake and that they began sampling at 4 p.m. Monday afternoon, 26 hours after the coal ash spill began and moments before press releases from the company, the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Danville Utility were released, all stating that there is no concern about drinking water in Danville, Va. Meghan Musgrave, a spokeswoman for Duke Energy, said [...]