the concerns immediately after the spill were about water quality in the down treatment community, dan ville, virginia which is 20 miles down stream gets its drinking water from the river. fortunately these metals can be filtered out, the arsenic, the leads from the water through regular water treatment methods. so the city's drinking water is considered safe. now the chern shifts t concern e long term ecological effects on aquatic life, fish and people who use the receiver. >> woodruff: and other spills and other locations where the coal ash is stored. >> duke has other sites in north carolina that have a total of 30coal ash pounds. environmentalists have been concerned about these pounds for a long time. duke thus far has said it plans to close some of those ponds just not yet specified exactly what it means by close. its plans may not include actually moving the coal ash away from the river bank it could be just putting a tarp over it. >> woodruff: wood you've been reporting on environmental groups in north carolina and elsewhere raising questions about whether state regulatory agencies w