Record #:

13941

Author(s):

Cowell, Rebekah

Abstract:

In this second in a series of three stories on environmental justice issues in North Carolina, Cowell examines the old Chatham County landfill, built in 1973 and closed by federal regulators in 1993, and its effects on the Alston Road community. The dump has leaked cancer-causing contaminants into residents' drinking water wells and at times has exceeded the limits for explosive methane gas.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 16, Apr 2011, p14-17, il, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Refuse and refuse disposal--Chatham County; African American neighborhoods--Chatham County