[CPEO-BIF] Buncombe County, North Carolina's inactive hazardous waste sites

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hidden hazards
Buncombe County's inactive toxic-waste site

by Susan Andrew
Mountain Express (NC)
January 11, 2011

In a wooded corner of the state Department of Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention's facility in Swannanoa sits a derelict 
incinerator overgrown with vines; an open door reveals piles of ash 
within. Corroded metal containers and other solid waste protrude from 
the ground nearby, murky puddles collecting in their partially submerged 
forms.

A cross-country trail used by the Owen High School track team skirts the 
site's perimeter fence. The Swannanoa 4-H Center hosts a summer youth 
camp on an adjacent property to the north. Yet little is known about 
what dangers may lurk in this decades-old hazardous-waste dump, used by 
the since-demolished Moore General Hospital during World War II.

One of 50 such identified trouble spots in Buncombe County (see map), it 
came to the attention of the state's Inactive Hazardous Sites Branch in 
2008, when a caller described some suspicious-looking material near the 
detention center’s property line.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mountainx.com/news/2011/011211hidden-hazards

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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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