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Outhouses
- Chatham tops other Triangle Area Counties for the number of residences without indoor plumbing. 3.4 % (almost twice the state average) of Chatham residences are without indoor plumbing as compared to less than one percent in Durham, Orange and Wake. The North Carolina average is 1.8%.
Intensive Livestock Operations (ILO)
- ILO’s are currently a high profile issue in Chatham County. County ILO's include 3 swine farms, 19 dairy farms and 1 wet poultry. ILO’s have the potential to threaten environmental health due to waste management practices, odor, surface and groundwater contamination or depletion, set-backs and buffers and lagoon construction. Unfortunately, research on the health effects of ILO’s has been limited.
Lead
- Lead screening for children age 12 to 36 months found 3.6% of those screened in Chatham to have elevated lead levels which compares favorably with the statewide results finding 6.7% with elevated levels. Chatham lags behind the State in the percentage of targeted children screened. The state average was 23.7% while Chatham screened only 11.2% of children targeted for high risk of lead exposure.
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