Young pigs, approximately 45 days old, spend about seven weeks on a nursery farm in Duplin County, ... not the outdoor lagoons where the waste decomposes, Rice said. ...

The pig lagoons aren't the only threat; water treatment plants have also been leaking sewage into nearby waterways as they overflow. The Times quoted Gov. Roy Cooper, ...

And there's no getting around it: with those pigs, comes a lot of, er ... wet waste. Hurricane Florence: Mapping the thousands of animal waste lagoons, nuclear sites threatened spotlight ...

Florence kills 5,500 pigs and 3.4 million chickens. The numbers are expected to rise. ... the number of hog waste lagoons in North Carolina that are damaged or overflowing continues to increase.