RESOURCE
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Still have questions about asbestos in Davidson? Or about asbestos in general? Here's a map of the latest testing and cleanup efforts as wells as links to documents and other resources.
SPECIAL PROGRAM
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In this hourlong special, we'll hear stories about cancer-causing asbestos left behind after the closing of the Carolina Asbestos Co. in downtown Davidson, North Carolina.
IN THIS SERIES
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Plans to redevelop a former cotton and asbestos mill in downtown Davidson are inching forward after the project hit two key milestones. -
A company that wants to redevelop an old mill in downtown Davidson has reached a tentative agreement with North Carolina environmental officials on how to permanently cover asbestos buried on the site. -
A Charlotte company wants to redevelop the 130-year-old Linden Cotton Mill in downtown Davidson as offices, shops and maybe a brewery or restaurant. But the factory also once made asbestos products, and the five-acre site is contaminated. In Part 3 of WFAE's series Asbestos Town, environmental reporter David Boraks looks at the status of the redevelopment and concern in the historically African American neighborhood around it.
CONVERSATIONS
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Asbestos is also scattered across the town and buried in neighborhoods where it was once used as fill material in people’s yards. Along with health and environmental concerns, there’s a deep sense of distrust among some longtime residents. Many in the town’s historically Black neighborhood have lost loved ones to what they believe were asbestos-related diseases. -
On Feb. 1, WFAE reporter David Boraks moderated a discussion with Davidson Mayor Rusty Knox, developer Mark Miller and Linda Reinstein, president of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, on the impact of asbestos contamination on a historically Black neighborhood in the town and efforts to redevelop the site of the old Linden Mill, where the asbestos originated.
RELATED COVERAGE
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The EPA will be back in Davidson next week to start another round of asbestos cleanups, including a town park. Meanwhile, work is wrapping up on removing asbestos-laden soil found during construction of a water main upgrade in the neighborhood. -
Here's a familiar story in the Charlotte region: An old brick textile mill is turned into something hip — a brewery, apartments or a food hall. It happens all the time, but attempts to redevelop a 130-year-old cotton mill in downtown Davidson have failed. The problem is cancer-causing asbestos. In Part 1 of our series Asbestos Town, environmental reporter David Boraks examines how asbestos became such a problem there. -
Environmental Protection Agency contractors will be back in Davidson Wednesday for more soil tests at homes near an old asbestos mill. They're trying to see if any additional properties are contaminated with asbestos from the former Carolina Asbestos factory near downtown. -
Federal environmental officials say they've finished testing more than 100 additional properties around an old asbestos mill in Davidson. Only six --… -
State and federal environmental officials say they will test more properties in Davidson for asbestos in the coming months. That's after residents in the… -
Updated 5:34 p.m. The town of Davidson is restricting access to a town park after tests found asbestos in several locations. Town officials say the… -
State environmental officials want to designate part of the west side of Davidson as an "asbestos watch area." But the renewed discussion about asbestos… -
State environmental officials have given Charlotte developers the preliminary go-ahead to redevelop a former asbestos factory in downtown Davidson. But… -
The N.C. Division of Waste Management will hold a public meeting Monday night in Davidson to talk about how a former asbestos mill could be cleaned up and…
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There was a strange sight in Davidson a few weeks ago – workers in white suits mowing lawns. It’s part of a $3 million asbestos cleanup by the U.S.… -
Contractors have finished installing a plastic liner, fresh earth and a fiber mat over an asbestos site at the Metrolina Warehouse near downtown Davidson.… -
Updated Friday, Jan. 27, 2017Despite the Trump administration's freeze on new Environmental Protection Agency contracts, a federal cleanup of asbestos…
