Residents of Denmark, which is a small town on U.S. 321 about 90 miles north of Bluffton, say their water has been "poisoned" for a decade.
The state government was adding something called HaloSan to the town water for 10 years.
It’s a substance that has been used to clean hot tubs and take care of rust and was not approved by the EPA for safe drinking water.
Now, the people in this small town are left with a lot of questions, a class action lawsuit, and no safe drinking water.
"That shocked me that I could live so close and not have a clue," explained Rev.
Campbell Chapel teamed with First Zion Baptist and Bible Missionary Baptist Church in Bluffton and the town of Bluffton back in December to take bottled water donations.
Black himself helped hand deliver 500 cases of bottled water to this underprivileged, dry town.
The Bible speaks of just giving someone a drink of cold water in the name of our prophet," explains Rev.
Black.
Donations will be accepted through Thursday at Campbell Chapel AME Church at 35 Boundary street, First Zion Baptist church at 10 Robertson street and Bible Missionary Baptist church at 236 Buck Island road.

The Supreme Court today turned down a sweeping challenge to pipeline oversight and took no action on a closely watched Clean Water Act debate.
The justices declined to consider their challenge.
Petitioners first challenged FERC’s process in federal district court, where the case was dismissed for a lack of jurisdiction.
The landowners then approached the Supreme Court.
Government lawyers urged the justices to reject the petition and preserve the 4th Circuit’s decision.
That process, landowners say, could result in a pipeline project overtaking their land before their complaints receive a proper airing.
Because Congress said so.
The petitions pending before the Supreme Court involve decisions from the 9th U.S.
There the courts sided with environmentalists who argued the Clean Water Act applies to pollution that moved from wastewater wells and a pipeline, through groundwater, and into major bodies of water.
Circuit Court of Appeals ultimately sided with Encana, and the Supreme Court today declined to review that decision.

(KOTA TV) – Three months ago Ellsworth Air Force Base announced that some residential wells were contaminated, and surrounding residents are still dealing with the issue.
We spoke with one Box Elder woman to find out how her family is getting by.
But a few months ago, Ellsworth Air Force Base told Maynard her water is contaminated with high levels of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, better known as PFOS.
After three rounds of testing, Ellsworth Air Force Base sampled 68 wells, and 15 of them have high levels of PFOS and PFOA.
The base told her firefighting foam runoff caused the contamination of her water."
NanCee Maynard says, "I’m really disappointed.
We’re neighbors out here.
When it was save the base, we all jumped in and did what we could, wrote our letters, helped them save the base, helped them have a living and a healthy lifestyle.
The long-term solution is hooking affected residents up to city water.
NanCee Maynard says, "If it’s Box Elder, since we’re outside the city limits, we would have double user fees."

LAGUNA BEACH — City officials on Tuesday, Jan. 22, are expected to approve a resolution to increase the city’s vigilance in protecting the ocean from urban runoff.
The City Council will review a resolution that follows guidelines established by the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board to improve water quality along Laguna’s coastline by monitoring runoff that comes from inland communities.
To meet the permit requirements, Laguna Beach must adopt regulations to prevent polluted runoff, implement programs that promote architectural features that reduce runoff from new development, inspect existing developments and construction sites for runoff pollution and educate the public on how to reduce runoff.
In June 2018, the water quality control board approved plans by Laguna Beach.
On Tuesday, the City Council is expected to adopt the resolution for stricter regulations and appoint City Manager John Pietig to make sure no one violates the permit.
If you include inland cities run-off, it’s a huge win.
The inland cities are doing a much better job.” Decades of over-fishing diminished much of California’s marine life and prompted a massive effort in the late 1990s to establish a statewide etwork of Marine Protected Areas.
The beaches off Laguna were declared a Marine Protected Area in 2012, the result of efforts of a coalition of local organizations and individuals – collectively the Laguna Bluebelt Coalition – that wanted to restore Laguna’s marine life and habitat.
By 2015, local surfers, stand-up paddle boarders and divers reported an increase in variety of fish, tide pool creatures and kelp along the protected coastline.
Gray, blue and humpback whales are no longer a rarity in the picturesque coves.

As the Trump administration considers weakening Obama-era safeguards for the disposal of toxic coal waste, a new report shows that groundwater near all of Texas’ 16 monitored coal-fired power plants is contaminated with pollutants — including known carcinogens — linked to so-called coal ash.
The report by the Washington D.C.-based Environmental Integrity Project, released Thursday, analyzed on-site groundwater monitoring data that power companies are now required to report to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under an Obama-era regulation known as the “Coal Ash Rule.” The report found that the groundwater around coal-fired plants across the state contain levels of pollutants like arsenic, boron, cobalt or lithium that would make it unsafe for human consumption.
In some cases, EIP’s report notes, contaminant levels at Texas coal plants far exceed federal health benchmarks.
For example, at a plant south of San Antonio owned by the San Miguel Electric Co-Op, a plant northwest of Houston owned and operated by the Texas Municipal Power Agency, known as Gibbons Creek, and Southwestern Electric Power Company’s J. Robert Welsh Power Plant east of Dallas, the level of cobalt found in the groundwater reached more than 600 micrograms per liter — more than 100 times higher than safe levels, according to the report.
"AEP is conducting the additional groundwater monitoring and analysis that is required by the CCR rule to determine if there is an impact on groundwater at the site."
The report found that the groundwater under another plant co-owned by the Lower Colorado River Authority and Austin Energy — the well-known Fayette Power Project Plant, which sits off Highway 71 between Austin and Houston — contains “unsafe levels of arsenic, cobalt, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, and sulfate.” The report acknowledges that some of the contaminants may be naturally occurring and that it’s “unclear whether and to what extent these pollutants are coming from coal ash.” But it says that the company-reported monitoring data, which compares water samples gathered from wells upstream of the plants — water that shouldn’t be contaminated, but, the report notes, possibly could be — to water from wells downstream of the site indicate that sulfate levels are significantly higher downstream of the Fayette landfill “and is therefore probably not naturally occurring.” Bill Lauderback, LCRA executive vice president for Public Affairs, said in a statement that the report is incorrect.
“Repeated testing has not indicated that groundwater at FPP poses a public health risk, and EPA rules do not require LCRA to take further action at this time.” Despite data that indicates widespread groundwater contamination, Russ, the EIP attorney, said it’s too soon to know which plants have started shuttering their coal ash pits or cleaning them up because the process laid out in the federal coal ash rule is not complete.
That process requires companies to conduct additional testing if elevated levels of a pollutant are found before the EPA would take enforcement action.
Propping up the beleaguered coal industry was one of President Trump’s most reiterated campaign promises, and the Trump administration is now looking at unwinding the coal ash rule after industry groups petitioned the EPA last May.
"The TCEQ continues the process of revising the draft rule due to changes to the federal coal ash rule."

Most environmental violations uncovered by China’s top environmental watchdog last year in bodies of water that supply drinking water and most discolored and foul-smelling water bodies it found in key cities have been addressed, the watchdog said.
Inspectors discovered 6,251 violations during two rounds of inspections involving 1,586 bodies of water in the 11 provinces and municipalities along the Yangtze River Economic Belt and many more around China in May and September.
He also said 95 percent of the 1,009 discolored and foul-smelling water bodies environmental officers found in 36 key cities have been cleaned.
"Defending clean waters" is a primary task for 2019, Li said, adding that a more comprehensive campaign, including an environmental protection and remediation project for the Yangtze River, pollution controls in Bohai Sea and for agricultural water pollution are needed.
According to the ministry, the quality of surface water in China markedly improved last year.
Monitoring at 1,940 sites found 71 percent of water at or above Grade III, the third-highest in the country’s five-tier water quality system, up by 3.1 percentage points.
Bodies of water listed below Grade V, the poorest quality, dropped by 1.6 percentage points to 6.7 percent.
In addition to protecting the water ecosystem, the ministry will devote more efforts to enhancing the governance of the increasing amount of solid waste in the country while continuing to reduce trash imports, Li said.
Trash imports fell by 46.5 percent year-on-year in 2018, Li said, adding that both the types and amounts of waste imports will be further reduced.
The ministry has been cracking down on illegal transfer and dumping of solid waste and hazardous waste, and 99.7 percent of 1,304 such violations the ministry found in 2018 have been rectified, Li said.

They will not have a criminal record as a result.
Those seven are: Michael Prysby, Stephen Busch, Liane Shekter Smith and Adam Rosenthal, of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
Eight people have pending charges, The AP reported.
Those charged are: Nick Lyon, former director of the state health department.
Involuntary manslaughter, misconduct in office.
Dr. Eden Wells, former Michigan chief medical executive.
Involuntary manslaughter, obstructing justice, lying, misconduct in office.
Misconduct in office, conspiracy.
Patrick Cook of the Department of Environmental Quality.
Misconduct in office, conspiracy.

A church well near the Dillingham Airport was found to have high levels of chemicals typically found in firefighting foam, a press release from the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities announced Friday.
According to the release, high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl subastances (PFAS) were found in one well at the Holy Rosary Church.
“The safety of Dillingham residents is of utmost importance," DOT&PF Deputy Commissioner John Binder said in the release.
"As soon as PFAS were discovered, DOT&PF in collaboration with DEC and Shannon & Wilson, Inc. initiated the process of notifying the impacted residents to provide an alternate source of drinking water."
DEC began its initial sampling of private water wells near the airport in December.
Shannon & Wilson, Inc. was contracted by DOT&PF to finish the preliminary investigation.
This includes an in-depth well search and sampling.
"PFAS are commonly used in products for fire suppression, resistance to wear, and repelling oil, stains, grease, and water," the release stated.
The use of AFFF during firefighting equipment testing at the Dillingham Airport is the presumed source of PFAS contamination in the affected wells.
Those who use the Holy Rosary Church well as a drinking water source are being advised to visit the Dillingham Senior Center instead.

STATEWIDE — Texas is home to 16 coal-fired power plants, which the Environmental Integrity Project says are all contaminating nearby groundwater.
16 coal-fired power plants in Texas Contaminated water near all 16 plants Poorly stored coal ash The group studied newly available data from each of those plants and found all of them have unsafe water nearby, when compared to standards in the Safe Drinking Water Act.
The Sierra Club’s Chrissy Mann said the problem is contamination from poorly stored coal ash.
"That has to be deposited somewhere, and coal ash waste is some of the most dangerous stuff that comes out of burning coal," she said.
"The Fayette Power Project complies with all applicable state and federal environmental requirements, including regular monitoring and testing of groundwater," LCRA spokeswoman Clara Tuma said in a statement.
Fayette Power Project’s monitoring and reporting confirm that FPP is appropriately in "detection," not "assessment," monitoring.
"We are not talking about switching it tomorrow.
That highlights another concern: the sheer amount of coal ash created every year.
Texas alone generates more than 13 million tons, EarthJustice Attorney Lisa Evans said.
CPS in San Antonio just retired its Deely coal-fired power plant last month, but Mann said the utility has no immediate plans to retire its Spruce power plant, which also uses goal.

SCURRY, Texas — Officials say a previously unknown black substance in a Scurry-area creek has been identified as non-toxic soybean ink and cleanup efforts are underway for an approximate 1.5-mile span of contamination.
On Wednesday, December 18, 2018, the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office was notified of a possible water contamination in the creek located in the 14000 block of County Road 4060 near Scurry, Texas, according to Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Jolie Stewart.
Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office deputies, who are assigned to the Environmental Enforcement Division, water in the creek was black and unnatural and traced the source to property upstream where 19 300-gallon containers of black liquid were discovered.
Deputies noted during the initial investigation that the ground appeared to be saturated with the black liquid and was contaminating the water in the nearby creek.
The investigation prompted officials from the Kaufman County Office of Emergency Management, Texas Parks and Wildlife, and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to respond to the scene.
"The contamination was contained and testing of the black liquid was completed by TCEQ," stated Stewart.
"The tests revealed the liquid to be a non-toxic soybean ink that is used in several areas of manufacturing."
Stewart says the property owner has been cooperative during the investigation and will be responsible for the paying the environmental clean-up company which will use booms placed in the water for filtration and the removal of the saturated soil.
“After testing conducted by the TCEQ and Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife, I feel confident there is no danger to the public or the environment," stated Kaufman County Sheriff Bryan Beavers.
"We are glad citizens reached out to us and encourage anyone with concerns to notify us.” No criminal charges will be filed, according to Stewart.