"COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The federal government has asked four families to leave their homes in Cheraw after finding industrial poisons spread from a contaminated Superfund cleanup site during Hurricane Florence.

In a statement Wednesday night, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the storm washed sediment polluted with toxic PCBs into the living areas of four houses and into the crawl space of a fifth home. Test results showed “detectable concentrations’’ of PCBs, according to the EPA’s statement.

PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, have been linked to cancer in people exposed to the toxin."

Sammy Fretwell reports for the Columbia State September 26, 2018. [2]