The North Carolina State Emergency Response Team is in close coordination with agencies in Virginia regarding the ongoing environmental issue resulting from the South Hill warehouse fire that occurred on July 6. The North Carolina Department of Public Safety also said the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has set up a website similar to Virginia DEQ’s to provide updates. The warehouse facility contained a large quantity of agricultural chemicals and runoff from the firefighting efforts that has entered several water systems in southern Virginia, including the Meherrin River from its confluence with Mountain Creek, and the Miles and Dockery Creeks, upstream of the Roanoke River-Lake Gaston. DPS reported this afternoon there is no immediate danger to the North Carolina public or to those near Lake Gaston.