Hogs generate 19 million tons of waste each year in North Carolina (NCSU 1997, NCDA&CS), all of which is put into open air lagoons and sprayed on fields.  Almost all of the state's 10 million hogs are located in the sensitive coastal plains of eastern North Carolina, where the majority of residents get their drinking water from wells.  In some communities, people like Evelyn Powell of Edgecombe County, NC, must find other sources for their drinking water. Karen Priest worries about contamination of other sources of fresh water in her Bladen community.

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