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WFAE Contractors for Charlotte Water remove asbestos-laden soil from Sloan Street in Davidson during a water main upgrade project in January. The Environmental Protection Agency will be back in Davidson next week to start another round of asbestos cleanups, including a town park. The EPA tested 136 properties on the town s historically African American West Side last summer and fall and found unsafe levels of asbestos at 11. The asbestos came from an old mill nearby that made asbestos from 1930 to about 1970. Officials say waste asbestos was used as fill in yards and driveways and in the town s Roosevelt Wilson Park. It s a concern because if asbestos fibers become airborne and are inhaled, they can cause cancer and other lung diseases. ....
WFAE Ruby Houston, who lives across the street from the former Carolina Asbestos mill in Davidson, spoke at a community meeting in January 2020. Asbestos contamination from an old factory in Davidson is not just an environmental concern on site. It s also a problem throughout the historically African American neighborhood nearby. So far, cleanups have cost the EPA at least $3 million. Today, in the second of our three-part series Asbestos Town, WFAE environmental reporter David Boraks looks at how Davidson is still dealing with the legacies of its asbestos-producing past, including long-simmering distrust from the Black community. David Boraks February 2017: Workers installed a new temporary cap on the mound of asbestos that neighbors call Asbestos Hill, or Mystery Hill. ....