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.
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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.
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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.
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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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A plan to redevelop an old mill in downtown Davidson has led to the discovery - or re-discovery - of disease-causing asbestos on the site and around the…