(Wilmington, N.C.) – Hurricane Florence is still making an impact as it leaves it’s mark on the Carolinas.  A spokeswoman for Duke Energy said Friday that a dam containing a large lake at Wilmington power plant has been breached by floodwaters from Florence, and it’s possible coal ash from an adjacent dump is flowing into the Cape Fear River.  Floodwaters continue to flow over an earthen dike at the north side of Sutton Lake, a 1,100-acre reservoir at the L.V. Sutton Power Station.  That water has caused several breaches in the dam on the south end of the lake, which is flowing back into the river.  Duke Energy is describing this as a “Developing Situation” and said they can’t rule out that ash might be escaping and flowing into the river.  The energy company’s ash waste management has faced intense scrutiny since a drainage pipe collapsed under a waste pit at an old plant in Eden in 2014, triggering a massive spill that coated 70 miles of the Dan River in gray sludge. The utility later agreed to plead guilty to nine Clean Water Act violations and pay $102 million in fines and restitution for illegally discharging pollution from ash dumps at five North Carolina power plants.   The Cape Fear river is expected to crest on Saturday.