On Monday, dozens of people from Juliette, a town in middle Georgia, traveled to the State Capitol with jugs of water from their wells and print outs of results from tests of that water.
They’re concerned that those tests show elevated levels of harmful elements like chromium that could have come from the coal ash at a coal-fired power plant nearby. And they’re asking state lawmakers for help.
“I just want something done,” said Gloria Hammond, one of the Juliette residents who traveled to Atlanta.
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