[CPEO-BIF] Wrightsville Beach landfill, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wrightsville Beach wants assessment of forgotten landfill

By Gareth McGrath
Wilmington Star News (NC)
July 30, 2009

Surrounded on one side by Wilmington's ritziest gated community and a 
growing business park on the other, the location just off the busy and 
prospering Military Cutoff corridor is prime property.

Within walking distance are the Forum and Mayfaire shopping centers for 
those looking to shop or get a bite to eat.

But there's one problem.

The property along Old McCumber Station Road is Wrightsville Beach's old 
landfill, and neither town officials nor state regulators are exactly 
sure what's buried on the heavily wooded five-acre lot.

Officials with the N.C. Division of Waste Management had actually lost 
track of the old dump until last November, when town officials told 
regulators they were interested in doing an environmental assessment of 
the property.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090730/ARTICLES/907304005/-1/LIVING05?Title=Wrightsville-Beach-wants-assessment-of-forgotten-landfill

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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