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OK, so I realize I'll get flamed for asking a stupid question, but I am curious enough to risk it. When you take 540 to the Brier Creek exit and get off onto 70, there is always a lot of steam/ smoke coming from a building off in the distance that I can't quite see. Can someone familiar with the area tell me what it is? I've never driven over that way to check it out.
Here you go, for anyone who doesn't want to wade through 3 pages on the other thread.
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Originally Posted by North_Raleigh_Guy
Info about the process at the Site:
newsobserver.com | Pollution cleanup will take longer (http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1169166.html - broken link)
That's fascinating; I had not realized that is the location of the site that contaminated Lake Crabtree. Somehow I had always thought it was closer to Lake Crabtree. If you go to the second page in the N&O link from cry884/NRG it says:
"The cleanup will not touch the pollution that has moved downstream and contaminated fish in Lake Crabtree, Crabtree Creek, Brier Creek and Brier Creek Reservoir, prompting officials to post signs along the waterways warning people to avoid eating the fish.
A plan recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean up the waterways involves excavating contaminated sediment from tributaries downstream from Ward Transformer and from Little Brier Creek and Brier Creek. The streams, which total about 3 miles in length, would be restored once the contamination is removed.
The plan also calls for letting Brier Creek Reservoir, a flood control pond, and Lake Crabtree, a recreational lake, to recover naturally. EPA officials theorize that once they remove contamination from the Ward Transformer site, the clean sediment washing downstream into the lake will bury contaminated sediment. Levels of pollution in fish tissue would also decline in years ahead."
Here are a good couple of articles on the incinerator:
[URL="http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A41805"]Incinerator likely for Ward PCB site in Wake: Method produces dioxins, has been rejected after protests elsewhere: News: Wake County: Independent Weekly: Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill[/URL]
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Its an incinerator
