Two years after river pollution exposed, company making progress bringing levels to compliance

FILE PHOTO - Fish from Broad River in Rutherford County, NC - Two years after News 13's investigative team exposed potentially toxic metals polluting the Broad River by American Zinc in Rutherford County, the company that owns the plant, Befesa Zinc Metal, LLC, is bringing potentially carcinogenic cadmium metal levels under scrutiny in the wastewater into compliance. (Photo credit: WLOS Staff)