Cleanup continues on contaminated land across from Northgate Mall, but is it enough?

Source: Independent Weekly, V. Coleman
6/6/12

DURHAM, NC - The former dry cleaners at 1103 W. Club Blvd. in Durham is gone, demolished after years of false starts in cleaning up the chemical contamination there. But that doesn't mean the fight over it has ended.
"I would like the remedial action plan to be as thorough as possible, as thorough as it possibly can be," says Laura Drey, a one-time resident of the neighborhood. Problem is, says Drey, it won't be.

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Beyond the brownfields: New Belgium's Asheville project means land-use recycling

(Source: Mountain Express, S. Andrew)

Along with the prospect of a new case of the brews, the Asheville site proposed for New Belgium Brewing Co.’s new East Coast facility would get cleaned up: Part of the Craven Street property qualifies for North Carolina’s brownfields program, a federal and state initiative that streamlines the redevelopment of property that may be contaminated.

The 17.5-acre site once hosted the WNC Stockyards, a hay warehouse, a filling station, and an automobile repair-and-painting shop. It’s property that, among others in our region, has been awaiting “a savvy developer to revitalize it,” says Kate O’Hara, project manager at the Regional Brownfields Initiative, located at the Land of Sky Regional Council.

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Contaminated former CTS site moves closer to condemnation

07/15/11 (Source: Andrew) A recent bid by residents near the contaminated former CTS of Asheville plant on Mills Gap Road to have the property condemned has taken a step forward.  A group of residents attended the June 21 meeting of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners and requested the condemnation. Action to address the contaminated site — where a vacant plant once housed chemical electroplating operations — has moved forward at a snail’s pace over decades, residents say, as state and federal agencies analyze the situation...

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