https://bolincreek.org/blog Protecting Our Bolin Creek Watershed Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:57:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://bolincreek.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-FOBCLogo_Icon-32x32.png https://bolincreek.org/blog 32 32 https://bolincreek.org/blog/2025/04/25/coal-ash-found-to-be-even-more-toxic-but-the-council-approved-the-brownfields-agreement-anyway/ https://bolincreek.org/blog/2025/04/25/coal-ash-found-to-be-even-more-toxic-but-the-council-approved-the-brownfields-agreement-anyway/#respond Fri, 25 Apr 2025 08:08:21 +0000 https://bolincreek.org/blog/?p=5839 The Chapel Hill Town Council voted to approve the Brownfields Plan, allowing government buildings and a parking garage on top of the coal ash pile.  The coal ash was landfilled decades before the former Police Department headquarters at 828 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. was built. The existing building will be razed. On September 13, 2023, […]

The post Coal Ash Found to be Even More Toxic, but the Council Approves the Brownfields Agreement Anyway first appeared on Friends of Bolin Creek.]]> https://bolincreek.org/blog/2025/04/25/coal-ash-found-to-be-even-more-toxic-but-the-council-approved-the-brownfields-agreement-anyway/feed/ 0 https://bolincreek.org/blog/2024/09/17/urgent-september-18th-public-hearing-chapel-hills-brownfields-plan-to-build-on-coal-ash-dump/ https://bolincreek.org/blog/2024/09/17/urgent-september-18th-public-hearing-chapel-hills-brownfields-plan-to-build-on-coal-ash-dump/#respond Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:42:54 +0000 https://bolincreek.org/blog/?p=5642   We won the battle against housing on the coal ash dump. But in the current plan, the Town is asking permission to leave all the coal ash dump perched just above the public greenway with minimal protective measures while constructing an office building and parking deck on top of the coal ash.  We believe […]

The post Urgent: September 18th Public Hearing–Chapel Hill’s Brownfields Plan to Build on Coal Ash Dump first appeared on Friends of Bolin Creek.]]> https://bolincreek.org/blog/2024/09/17/urgent-september-18th-public-hearing-chapel-hills-brownfields-plan-to-build-on-coal-ash-dump/feed/ 0 https://bolincreek.org/blog/2022/07/24/at-what-cost-a-community-information-session/ https://bolincreek.org/blog/2022/07/24/at-what-cost-a-community-information-session/#respond Sun, 24 Jul 2022 16:08:49 +0000 https://bolincreek.org/blog/?p=4788  “At What Cost? A Community Information Session on the Hazards of Chapel Hill’s Coal Ash” View the June 22nd Webinar The Chapel Hill Town Council has decided to move ahead with a plan to put offices and housing on top of a coal ash landfill located underneath the police station on MLK Jr. Blvd. Instead […]

The post At What Cost? A Community Information Session on Chapel Hill’s Coal Ash first appeared on Friends of Bolin Creek.]]> https://bolincreek.org/blog/2022/07/24/at-what-cost-a-community-information-session/feed/ 0 https://bolincreek.org/blog/2014/05/23/letter-to-the-town-council-re-coal-ash-dump-in-chapel-hill/ https://bolincreek.org/blog/2014/05/23/letter-to-the-town-council-re-coal-ash-dump-in-chapel-hill/#respond Fri, 23 May 2014 12:26:04 +0000 http://bolincreek.org/blog/?p=3040 Coal Ash Letter Dear Mayor Kleinschmidt and Town Council members: Friends of Bolin Creek are writing to urge you to clean up the large coal ash dump in the center of Chapel Hill. It would be a grave mistake to follow the lead of the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources – whose reputation […]

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