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A person working with Modern Geoscientists, an environmental company, inspects the air quality during the removal process to make sure the air is not harmful to the residents.
The city of Dallas has created a dashboard to help residents track what’s happening as Shingle Mountain is torn down.
The six-story pile of shingles in southeast Dallas should be removed by March. Crews have been making good progress, city officials told City Council members on Tuesday during a special Environment and Sustainability Committee meeting.
In December, the city began to haul away the roofing materials, which had been piling up for three years.
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Facebook This compilation of Dallas news, right before the holiday lull, is jam-packed and includes updates on the so-called Shingle Mountain, evictions in Dallas, a major mall in Plano, and a holy ceremony hosted by DART to usher in a new rail line. Here s what happened in Dallas this week:
Shingle Mountain After nearly two years of litigation, the city was allowed to begin removing Shingle Mountain, 98,000 tons of abandoned asphalt shingles at 9500 S. Central Expwy. According to a release, Roberts Trucking will move the shingle material to McCommas Bluff Landfill, which plans to recycle it. The removal is being supervised by Modern Geosciences to address environmental concerns, and is anticipated to be complete by the end of March 2021.
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A yellow bulldozer carries a pile of shingles on Thursday morning. This is the first day of a long removal to teardown Shingle Mountain, a giant pile of toxic waste that s been located in southeast Dallas for nearly three years.
After a years-long fight to remove Shingle Mountain, about ten trucks on Thursday morning began to haul away the six-story pile of roofing shingles in southeast Dallas.
City officials say the teardown is expected to be completed by March 2021.
Read more stories about how Shingle Mountain is affecting Dallas residents and the city s plan to remove it.
Starting at 8 a.m., large trucks from Roberts Trucking Inc. began to haul shingles away. The crew estimated there were over 100,000 tons of them on site.
The city says it will take 90 days to clean the pile, located along the 9500 block of South Central Expressway. Make sure we do everything safe, we got monitors inside and outside, so it was not an easy process to get something started, but as of today you are seeing, it took a couple years of litigation but now it s coming down, that s the good part, it s coming down now, Atkins said. Right now we really can t get overjoyed as much as everybody else because we have seen this start before, constantly before. And it started before, and it stopped. And here it is again, Marsha Jackson, who lives alongside the pile, told NBC 5.