An American Rivers Report recently identified the Cape Fear and Neuse Rivers as in the top ten Most Endangered in the United States. A 2016 study of the presence of hexavalent chromium in drinking water by the Environmental Working Group found levels higher than it considers safe in the tap water of more than 200 million Americans. This is the same toxin that first landed on the national radar in the early 1990s when Erin Brockovich successfully sued a large utility for contaminating the