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  • 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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