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Rogers Road environmental justice

A historic Black community, the county landfill beside it, and the long campaign for sewer service and the Greene Tract.

In briefIn 1972 officials placed the county landfill on Eubanks Road beside the historically Black Rogers Road community, promising it would run about ten years. It was expanded instead and did not close until 2013, and residents' organizing through the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association helped win a sewer line for the neighborhood, completed in 2019.

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StorylineHistoric Rogers Road neighborhood1840–2021 · 25 events · The Rogers-Eubanks area grew from Black-owned farms and sawmills after emancipation, and in 1972 the county landfill was placed beside it. Residents organized through RENA and the Rogers-Eubanks Coalition from 2007, the landfill closed in 2013, and the neighborhood won a community center in 2014 and the sewer extension in 2019. StorylineOrange County landfill campaign1972 to 2013 · 69 events · The Eubanks Road landfill opened beside the Rogers Road community in 1972; four decades of expansions, lawsuits and the neighborhood's demands ended with its closure in 2013. StorylineSearching for a new county landfill site, 1989–19921989–1992 · 17 events · With the Eubanks Road landfill due to fill by 1997, Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County began searching in 1989 for a new site. A citizens' committee named 15 areas in 1991 and cut them to four, drawing protests over Duke Forest and Eubanks Road and hearings of hundreds of residents. In May 1992 engineers got the go-ahead to drill test holes at the four sites.

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  1. The Hogan-Rogers House was built on the Hogan plantation on Purefoy Road The two-story frame house on Purefoy Road, on land now owned by St. Paul AME Church, dates to the 1840s or 1850s; the 1992 township survey recorded it as the Lloyd-Rogers House at 1612 Purefoy Road, the only house in the township on a raised basement. A fireplace in that basement led the Preservation Society's director to conclude that enslaved people on the Hogan plantation probably lived and worked there. INDY Week reported in 2012 that many Rogers-Eubanks residents descend from people held on the plantation. Place: Purefoy Road, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: St. Paul AME ChurchINDY Week: Once a home to slaves, the Hogan-Rogers house could be demolished
  2. Black-owned family farms and sawmills made up the Rogers-Eubanks area By the late nineteenth century the area between Homestead and Eubanks roads, north of Carrboro and Chapel Hill, was a neighborhood of Black-owned family farms and sawmills set among forest. RENA and the Town of Carrboro both date settlement of the wider area to the 1700s. Place: Rogers RoadRogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association: About Us
  3. David Caldwell's family bought a home on Rogers Road David Caldwell, later a RENA leader, said his family moved from Merritt Mill Road to Rogers Road when Black families got the chance to buy homes there. He recalled a farming neighborhood of about thirteen houses, with dirt roads and cornfields. People: David Caldwell Jr. Place: Rogers Road · Also named: David Caldwell · Also mentions: Merritt Mill RoadFrom the Rock Wall: David Caldwell on the history of environmental racism in the Rogers Road community
  4. Robert Campbell moves to Rogers Road as the county landfill is built beside it Campbell, who grew up in the Northside community of Chapel Hill, moved to Rogers Road in the early 1970s, as the Orange County landfill was going in next to the neighborhood. He later became president of the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association and of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP. People: Robert Campbell Place: Rogers Road, Chapel HillSearch the index · RENA Community Center: Staff
  5. The University tells Chapel Hill to move its landfill off University land In a letter presented to the aldermen on July 27, Vice Chancellor Joe Eagles gave the town notice to find a new site so that garbage landfill operations on University land, provided free, would end by January 1, 1971. He also set the University's payment for town services at about $11,280 a month (shares of the police, fire, garbage, sewer and disposal plant budgets); town manager Robert Peck said the town had not been told of the landfill change earlier. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Joseph C. Eagles, Robert PeckThe Daily Tar Heel, July 30, 1970, p. 1
  6. Chapel Hill garbage collection stops as the University landfill closes With the University closing its landfill near Glen Heights to the towns on September 1 and a temporary restraining order holding up the new Eubanks Road site, Chapel Hill made its last scheduled garbage pickup on August 31, and trash soon piled up along Franklin Street. Carrboro hauled its trash to Hillsborough for the time being. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Eubanks Road, Franklin StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, September 2, 1972, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 3, 1982, p. 1
  7. County commissioners rezone a 200-acre Eubanks Road tract for a landfill In the week of August 21 the Orange County Board of Commissioners rezoned a 200-acre tract off Eubanks Road, a few miles outside Chapel Hill near N.C. 86, so Chapel Hill could open a regional landfill for the towns, the county and the University. Chapel Hill's aldermen had asked residents to back the site that summer, and the New Hope Improvement Association, which wanted landfills kept out of the New Hope watershed, appealed to the State Board of Health to stop it. Place: Eubanks Road (County Road 1727), Orange County · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, August 31, 1972, p. 1
  8. Chapel Hill aldermen declare a garbage emergency and reopen the old Plant Road landfill On Labor Day, September 4, the Board of Aldermen declared the garbage situation an emergency and voted to reopen the old town landfill on Plant Road off Franklin Street, unused for about 20 years, for Chapel Hill's use for a week or two so collection could resume. Opponents of the Eubanks Road site told the board that the engineers' report had missed springs and wet bore holes on the tract. People: Howard N. Lee, Ross Scroggs Place: Plant Road landfill, off Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Eubanks Road, Franklin StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, September 5, 1972, p. 1
  9. State Board of Health approves the Eubanks Road landfill site In a letter on September 12, Sidney Usry, chief of the State Board of Health's solid waste division, approved the first phase, about 25 acres, of the 202-acre Eubanks Road site. Town Manager Robert Peck expected Chapel Hill to take title within days at $235,000 for the land; the University refused to share the cost and would pay by the load, and Peck said the filled land might one day be a city-county park. Place: Eubanks Road, Orange County · Also named: Sidney Usry, Robert Peck · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, September 13, 1972, p. 1
  10. Chapel Hill aldermen voted to buy the Eubanks Road site for the county landfill Three months after the Chestnut Ridge site was abandoned, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to buy a 200-acre tract on Eubanks Road for $235,000. An unlined landfill was then built on about 80 acres of it, next to the Black Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadRENA Community Center: The Orange County Landfill
  11. New Hope Improvement Association sues to stop the Eubanks Road landfill Opponents of the landfill formed the New Hope Improvement Association, which drew about 500 members, and filed suit in Orange County Superior Court at Hillsborough on September 18, 1972, against Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Orange County and the former owner of the site. After a show-cause hearing on September 27 and 28, the court denied an injunction on September 29, and the landfill stayed open. Place: Eubanks Road, Chapel HillRENA Community Center: The Orange County Landfill · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 19, 1972, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, October 2, 1972, p. 1
  12. Orange County commissioners agree to pay 43 percent of the Eubanks Road landfill On September 19 the county commissioners agreed to pay 43 percent of the $235,000 cost of the Eubanks Road landfill land and equipment, with Chapel Hill paying another 43 percent and Carrboro 14 percent, provided the site survived the New Hope Improvement Association's suit. The University would pay by the load to dump there. Place: Orange County Board of Commissioners (Eubanks Road landfill) · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, September 21, 1972, p. 1
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  1. Judge Thomas D. Cooper refuses to close the Eubanks Road landfill In Orange County Superior Court in Hillsborough, Judge Thomas D. Cooper denied the New Hope Improvement Association's request for an injunction against the Eubanks Road landfill, ruling that the plaintiffs had not shown when and where pollution would occur and that the site had state health and geology approval. He let the plaintiffs hire a firm to test the site, and their lawyer, A. B. Coleman Jr., said an appeal was being considered. Place: Orange County Superior Court, Hillsborough · Also named: Thomas D. Cooper, A. B. Coleman Jr. · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, October 2, 1972, p. 1
  2. Rogers Road landfill opens Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County opened a shared, unlined county landfill on Eubanks Road beside the historically Black Rogers-Eubanks community, whose residents were told it would close after about ten years. Chapel Hill bought the site and put it into use in the week of September 18, 1972, while the New Hope Improvement Association was suing to stop it; in November 1972 the town, Carrboro and the county agreed to own it 43, 14 and 43 percent. It was expanded repeatedly and ran for 41 years, closing in June 2013. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel: Orange County landfill to close this weekend (June 26, 2013) · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 20, 1972, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, September 27, 1972, p. 2; The Daily Tar Heel, November 7, 1972, p. 1
  3. Officials signed the landfill agreement that carried promises to the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood RENA's chronology records that Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee, Mayor Robert Wells Jr. and county commission chairman H.D. Bennett signed the full landfill agreement. Residents remember Lee promising that their road would be paved and that the filled site would become a recreation center for them. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Orange County · Also named: Robert Wells Jr., H.D. BennettRENA Community Center: The Orange County Landfill
  4. Chapel Hill buys a $57,794 compactor for the Eubanks Road landfill On the town manager's advice the Board of Aldermen accepted the E.F. Craven Company of Greensboro's bid of $57,794, the second lowest, for a trash compactor at the Eubanks Road landfill, the lowest bid not meeting specifications. Orange County and Carrboro, which shared the landfill, agreed to the purchase. Place: Eubanks Road landfill, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, March 28, 1973, p. 4
  5. Chapel Hill aldermen ask the county to rehear a rezoning beside the Eubanks Road landfill At Alderman Gerry Cohen's request the board asked the county commissioners to reschedule their hearing on rezoning 20 acres next to the 200-acre Eubanks Road landfill, owned by Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the county, from agricultural to industrial use for a trucking company, because neither town had been notified. Cohen said residents of the area had been told the land might become a park. Place: Eubanks Road, Chapel Hill Township · Also named: Gerry CohenThe Daily Tar Heel, September 5, 1974, p. 1
  6. Chapel Hill aldermen admit a sewage sludge trench broke the landfill agreement Answering an Airport Road resident's petition, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen admitted that the town had broken its landfill agreement with Carrboro and Orange County by digging a 30-by-100-foot trench of wet sewage sludge in an unopened section of the Eubanks Road landfill, on the south side of the road, without state health department approval. Mayor Howard Lee, who had visited the site, said the board learned of it that morning, and the town promised to start removing the sludge the next day. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Eubanks Road landfill, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Airport Road, Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, February 12, 1975, p. 2
  7. Robert Campbell helps start Faith Tabernacle Oasis of Love International Church Campbell and his wife helped start Faith Tabernacle Oasis of Love International Church, where he was ordained in the 1980s. He has said his bishop's charge to the congregation to go beyond its own comfort turned him toward the landfill and the neighborhood's water. People: Robert Campbell Place: Rogers Road, Chapel HillSearch the index · Marian Cheek Jackson Center, From the Rock Wall: Min. Robert Campbell
  8. Orange County begins discussing the first expansion of the Eubanks Road landfill Ten years after the landfill opened, the county began discussing an expansion even though it had estimated the site would be full by 1985. Residents had been told the landfill would close after about ten years. Place: Eubanks Road landfillINDY Week: Digging deeper
  9. Neighbors object to landfill land off Eubanks and Homestead roads, and Carrboro's aldermen delay the purchase vote In a seven-and-a-half-hour meeting, residents near 169 acres between Eubanks and Homestead roads told the Carrboro Board of Aldermen that a landfill there would endanger their health and lower their property values, and the board voted 3-2 to put off its share of the $608,000 joint purchase that Chapel Hill and Orange County had already approved. Aldermen Doug Anderson, Hilliard Caldwell and Joyce Garrett wanted more information on environmental effects; Jim White and Zona Norwood voted against delay, and the board approved the purchase on March 7. People: Hilliard Caldwell Place: Carrboro (land between Eubanks and Homestead roads, northwest of town) · Also named: Doug Anderson, Joyce Garrett, Jim White, Zona NorwoodThe Daily Tar Heel, March 1, 1984, p. 3
  10. Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County agree to buy the Greene Tract as a possible landfill site The three governments agreed to buy the roughly 164-acre Greene Tract, just north of Rogers Road inside Chapel Hill's extraterritorial jurisdiction, for a future landfill. The county commissioners and the Chapel Hill Town Council approved the $608,000 purchase first, and Carrboro's aldermen gave the last approval on March 7, 1984, after neighbors' objections had led them to put off a vote late in February; the Daily Tar Heel described the land as 169 acres between Eubanks and Homestead roads next to the regional landfill. The county's landfill site search committee did not choose it, and its future use was argued over through the 1990s. Place: Greene TractOrange County: Greene Tract Frequently Asked Questions, May 2022 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 1, 1984, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, March 13, 1984, p. 2
  11. The Durham-Orange Regional Solid Waste Task Force hires a consultant to study garbage disposal The task force, chaired by Chapel Hill council member Nancy Preston, hired HDR Techserv Inc. of Charlotte to weigh landfilling, waste-to-energy and recycling for a two-county system, as Chapel Hill's 200-acre landfill off Eubanks Road had fewer than ten years left. The firm began work in late October; the task force set public forums for late January and planned to recommend a system to the Orange and Durham county governments in the spring. Place: Eubanks Road landfill, Chapel Hill · Also named: Nancy Preston · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, November 30, 1987, p. 3
  12. Regional solid waste task force tells a public hearing a new landfill is needed At a public hearing attended by about 75 people, the Orange-Durham Regional Solid Waste Task Force presented a consultant's study by HDR Engineering and said the two counties would need a new 50-foot-deep landfill on about 750 acres, alongside recycling and other measures. Orange County buried 94,000 tons of waste in 1987, 93 percent of what it produced; residents worried about where a landfill would go. Place: Chapel Hill High School, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, January 29, 1988, p. 2
  13. Weekly curbside recycling of newspaper, glass and aluminum begins in Chapel Hill and Carrboro The Chapel Hill Public Works Department began a weekly curbside collection of newspaper, glass and aluminum on November 9, 1988 in parts of Chapel Hill (the historic district, Timberlyne, Countryside and Kensington Trace) and on November 10 in Carrboro neighborhoods north and east of Hillsborough Road. About a third of the 1,850 households asked took part in the first week, setting out 8.5 tons; the program, paid for from Orange County Landfill funds and meant to cut waste sent to the landfill, followed a newspaper-only pilot begun in early October in several Chapel Hill neighborhoods. Place: Chapel Hill and Carrboro · Also mentions: Kensington TraceThe Daily Tar Heel, November 30, 1988, p. 4
  14. Residents oppose rezoning the Greene Tract for a landfill at a joint public hearing At a joint hearing of the Chapel Hill Town Council, the Orange County commissioners and the Carrboro Board of Aldermen, residents near the 170-acre Greene Tract north of Chapel Hill, owned by the three governments, objected to rezoning it to rural transition so it could hold a future landfill; one said its springs fed Bolin and New Hope creeks. Council member Nancy Preston said the protests would lead the town to search for other sites, and the commissioners set a tentative vote for June 5. Place: Greene Tract, west of N.C. 86 north of Chapel Hill · Also named: Nancy PrestonThe Daily Tar Heel, April 10, 1989, p. 4
  15. Orange County commissioners approve a process to find a new county landfill site The Orange County Board of Commissioners approved a process for choosing a new landfill site that gave Chapel Hill and Carrboro a part, with a Landfill Search Committee of 10 residents from each of the seven townships and three members from each governing board to set criteria and recommend sites. Town Manager David Taylor reported the Eubanks Road landfill, which took about 97.5 percent of the county's trash, would be full by 1997; the Greene Tract on Homestead Road, bought about eight years earlier, could no longer be used because houses had been built around it. Place: Orange County · Also named: David Taylor · Also mentions: Greene Tract, Eubanks Road, Homestead RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, October 27, 1989, p. 3
  16. Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Orange County begin a countywide search for a new landfill site The three governing boards started a countywide search for the next sanitary landfill, carried out with a citizens' Landfill Search Committee and an engineering consultant. The Greene Tract, bought in 1984 for landfill use, was screened but not made a finalist. Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Greene TractTown of Chapel Hill: Minutes of the Town Council, February 12, 1996 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 27, 1989, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, November 29, 1989, p. 9
  17. The landfill owners group names ten citizens to search for a new Orange County landfill site The Orange Regional Landfill Owners Group of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County representatives chose 10 citizens from around the county for a Landfill Search Committee to help pick a site for a new landfill, since the Eubanks Road landfill was expected to fill by 1997, and to explain the need to the public. Officials noted that only 95,000 tons were dumped in 1989, 18 percent below forecasts, and said the $15-a-ton fee might rise to $21. Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, March 9, 1990, p. 3
  18. Orange County's landfill search committee names 15 possible sites for a new landfill The regional landfill committee announced 15 areas under consideration across rural Orange County, eight near farm neighborhoods, six near rural residential areas and one among established farms, with the present county landfill due to close in 1997. A citizens' committee was to narrow the list to two to four sites for the Landfill Owners' Group of elected officials from Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the county, and residents near the areas objected. On March 26 the Orange County Greens called the search biased and asked for a new one; Chapel Hill's solid waste administrator said it would not start over. Place: Orange CountyThe Daily Tar Heel, January 31, 1991, p. 5 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 27, 1991, p. 3
  19. Landfill search committee sets aside the Duke Forest site On September 4, 1991, the Orange Regional Landfill Search Committee put site 5, on Turkey Farm Road near Duke Forest north of Chapel Hill, in a reserve group with eight other sites, while seven sites went on to closer study. More than 100 residents came, many with the Coalition Against a Site Five Landfill that neighbors had formed to fight it, and cheered the move. Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Duke ForestThe Daily Tar Heel, September 6, 1991, p. 3
  20. Landfill search committee returns a Cane Creek site to active study On September 25, 1991, the Orange Regional Landfill Search Committee, meeting again because some members doubted their September 4 votes, put site 2, east of the Cane Creek reservoir and north of N.C. 54, back on its list for active study, while unanimously leaving the Duke Forest site in reserve. It planned to narrow its 10 remaining sites to five on November 20. Place: Phillips Middle School, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Duke Forest, N.C. 54The Daily Tar Heel, September 27, 1991, p. 1
  21. A package of radioactive phosphorus from a UNC medical lab ends up in the Orange Regional Landfill A sealed, unopened package holding ten millicuries of radioactive phosphorus, delivered to a Taylor Hall laboratory the day before, was thrown out with ordinary trash early in the morning and hauled to the county landfill, where a search failed to find it. University health and safety director Donald Willhoit, also a county commissioner, said it posed no real risk and was the fifth such loss in 11 years; Chapel Hill public works director Bruce Heflin asked the medical school to review its disposal procedures. Place: Orange Regional Landfill, Eubanks Road, Chapel Hill · Also named: Donald Willhoit, Bruce HeflinThe Daily Tar Heel, November 1, 1991, p. 1
  22. The Orange County Landfill Search Committee narrows the possible landfill sites to four After more than a year of study the committee cut its list of eight possible sites for a new county landfill to four: Site 2 near Bingham Township, Sites 9 and 11 just north of Hillsborough, and Site 17 beside the present landfill north of Chapel Hill. It put in reserve Site 3, already owned by the Landfill Owners Group near Horace Williams Airport, and Site 4 off Davis Road north of Chapel Hill, as neighbors of both cheered; the present landfill was expected to be full by 1997. Place: Phillips Junior High School, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Horace Williams AirportThe Daily Tar Heel, November 21, 1991, p. 1
  23. Love Your Mother protests the Duke Forest landfill site in Carrboro Members of Love Your Mother, a Carrboro environmental group founded by Debi Bird, demonstrated in front of Weaver Street Market on January 18, 1992, against the Orange Regional Landfill Search Committee's choice of a Duke Forest tract off N.C. 86 north of Eubanks Road as one of four possible sites for a new landfill, and called for a "zero garbage" recycling policy instead. Place: Weaver Street Market, Carrboro · Also named: Debi Bird · Also mentions: Duke ForestThe Daily Tar Heel, January 21, 1992, p. 3
  24. Landfill opponents ask Chapel Hill to block a Eubanks Road land purchase Scott Franklin of Stop Eubanks Area Landfill asked the Chapel Hill Town Council on January 27, 1992, to freeze the Orange County Landfill Owners Group's effort to buy 15 more acres on Eubanks Road next to the county landfill. Gayle Wilson, the town's solid waste administrator, said the land would supply cover soil for the landfill's planned second phase; Franklin also urged the council to defend Duke Forest, still one of four candidate landfill sites. Place: Eubanks Road, Chapel Hill · Also named: Scott Franklin, Gayle Wilson · Also mentions: Duke ForestThe Daily Tar Heel, January 29, 1992, p. 3
  25. Chapel Hill Town Council calls for public involvement in a solid waste plan Reviewing the Solid Waste Reduction Task Force's report, which stressed recycling, reuse and less packaging, the council agreed that a plan for Orange County's growing waste must be made with full public involvement. Council member Alan Rimer, who had served on the task force, said incineration was the only option ruled out, drawing applause, and asked the Landfill Owners Group to hold a public hearing. Place: Chapel Hill Town Hall · Also named: Alan RimerThe Daily Tar Heel, February 7, 1992, p. 3
  26. About 800 people debate the landfill candidate sites before the Landfill Owners Group The Landfill Owners Group took public comment at the Orange High School auditorium on cutting the candidate sites for Orange County's new landfill from four to three. About 800 people came, with Chapel Hill residents opposing sites OC-3 and OC-17 near Eubanks Road and Duke Forest facing Hillsborough-area residents opposing OC-9 and OC-2; Norman Christensen, dean of Duke's School of the Environment, asked that the Duke Forest site be dropped. Place: Orange High School auditorium, Hillsborough · Also named: Norman Christensen · Also mentions: Duke ForestThe Daily Tar Heel, February 27, 1992, p. 1
  27. The Landfill Owners Group tells the search committee to add two sites The Landfill Owners Group, the county and town officials responsible for the new landfill, required the Landfill Search Committee to add two more sites to its list so the finalists could be compared. State officials said the same day that a rule keeping landfills 10,000 feet from airports ruled out Site 3 near Horace Williams Airport, though neither group had yet dropped it. Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Horace Williams AirportThe Daily Tar Heel, March 13, 1992, p. 1
  28. The Landfill Owners Group hears public ideas for a countywide waste plan The Landfill Owners Group held a public hearing at Chapel Hill Town Hall on a comprehensive solid waste management plan for Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County; speakers urged more recycling and reuse before a new landfill, and a three-member committee was to draft an outline for the three governing boards. Place: Town Hall, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, March 19, 1992, p. 3
  29. The Landfill Search Committee votes to drill test holes at four candidate sites Before about 300 people in the Chapel Hill High School auditorium, the Landfill Search Committee voted 6 to 5 to begin geotechnical study by drilling at four candidate sites: Site 2 near the Cane Creek Reservoir, Sites 9 and 11 near Eno River State Park and Site 17 near Duke Forest. Hecklers called for disbanding the committee, and members debated asking the state to let them restore Site 3, dropped under the rule on landfills near Horace Williams Airport. Place: Chapel Hill High School auditorium, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Duke Forest, Horace Williams AirportThe Daily Tar Heel, March 26, 1992, p. 1
  30. The Landfill Search Committee names Sites 3 and 17 as finalists for the county landfill The Landfill Search Committee named Site 3, off Eubanks Road near Horace Williams Airport, and Site 17, which takes in the Blackwood division of Duke Forest, as the finalists for Orange County's new landfill, putting Sites 9 and 11 north of Hillsborough and Site 2 near the Cane Creek Reservoir on reserve. Member Walter Faribault said the committee voted 7 to 5 to return Site 3, which the county mostly owned, to active consideration; geotechnical tests were still to come. Place: Orange County · Also named: Walter Faribault · Also mentions: Duke Forest, Horace Williams Airport, Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, March 9, 1992, p. 3
  31. Orange County commissioners vote 3-2 against cutting UNC's landfill fee for power plant ash The commissioners rejected a Landfill Owners Group recommendation to cut the University's tipping fee for coal ash from its Cameron Avenue power plant from about $20 a ton to $13, with the three local governments covering the difference, after UNC had found a private hauler to take the ash to Fayetteville for less. Commissioner Stephen Halkiotis called the cut favoritism, while Donald Willhoit said the board might vote again. Place: Orange County · Also named: Stephen Halkiotis, Donald Willhoit · Also mentions: Cameron Avenue power plantThe Daily Tar Heel, April 16, 1992, p. 1
  32. Chapel Hill Town Council lets engineers test four possible landfill sites Despite objections from landowners, the Chapel Hill Town Council gave Joyce Engineering the go-ahead to drill test holes on the four remaining candidate sites for a new Orange Regional Landfill: Site 2 south of Cane Creek Reservoir in Bingham Township, Site 9 between N.C. 57 and N.C. 86 near Hillsborough, Site 11 northeast of Hillsborough in Eno Township, and Site 17 in the Blackwood division of Duke Forest. Eighteen of the 49 landowners had refused the engineers access, and the decision went next to the Carrboro aldermen and the county commissioners on May 19. Place: Chapel Hill Town Hall; sites across Orange County · Also mentions: Duke Forest, Orange Regional LandfillThe Daily Tar Heel, May 18, 1992, p. 2
  33. UNC Hospitals begins a larger recycling program UNC Hospitals began a recycling program aimed at cutting its waste by 40 percent, starting with cardboard collection expected to keep about seven tons a week out of the landfill, after earlier efforts had recycled about 15 of the 220 tons it sent to the Orange Regional Landfill each month. Place: UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Orange Regional LandfillThe Daily Tar Heel, June 4, 1992, p. 3
  34. Orange County's recycling program stops taking all plastics but milk jugs and soda bottles Because its contractor could sell only those two kinds, the Orange Community Recycling Program cut the plastics it collected at its drop-off sites to milk jugs and soda bottles on December 1, 1992, with a $50-a-ton charge for other material in a load. The program, begun in 1987 with five drop-off sites, recycled 9,427 tons, about 7.2 percent of the county's waste, in the 1991-92 fiscal year. Place: Orange CountyThe Daily Tar Heel, November 20, 1992, p. 4
  35. An Elon College team maps an old homestead on a landfill candidate site in Duke Forest By April 28, 1993 an Elon College dig led by anthropologist Dawn Bodo had cleared and mapped an old homestead on the Blackwood Division of Duke Forest, one of four sites under study for a new landfill, and argued it should be spared. Place: Blackwood Division, Duke Forest, Orange County · Also named: Dawn Bodo · Also mentions: Duke ForestThe Daily Tar Heel, April 28, 1993, p. 5
  36. Orange Regional Landfill and Orange Community Recycling offer $10,000 in waste-reduction grants The landfill and the county recycling program offered $10,000 in grants for waste-reduction and recycling projects in Orange County, with proposals due May 19. Place: Orange CountyThe Daily Tar Heel, April 21, 1993, p. 3
  37. Chapel Hill Town Council approves a study for a countywide solid waste plan On May 23 the council voted 7-2 to authorize a $195,860 study, by the engineering firm Weston with Cal Recovery, for an integrated solid waste management plan for the county covering waste reduction, collection, composting and disposal. Joe Capowski and Joyce Brown voted no, questioning the cost of a consultant and the year's delay. Place: Town Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Joe Capowski, Joyce BrownThe Daily Tar Heel, May 26, 1994, p. 3
  38. Chapel Hill Town Council recommends site OC-17 beside the Eubanks Road landfill for the next county landfill After the search narrowed to four sites judged permittable, the council voted 7 to 2 to recommend a reduced site OC-17, adjacent to the existing landfill, as the county's next sanitary landfill. INDY Week reports that the county commissioners and the Hillsborough board also voted for it that month, with Carrboro Mayor Mike Nelson opposed. People: Mike Nelson Place: Chapel HillTown of Chapel Hill: Minutes of the Town Council, February 12, 1996
  39. Chapel Hill authorizes buying land beside the landfill to widen its buffer The council unanimously authorized the town manager to buy the 4.05-acre Wilson property adjoining the Eubanks Road landfill at $6,000 an acre to expand a minimal buffer, subject to approval by Carrboro and Orange County. Place: Eubanks Road landfill · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadTown of Chapel Hill: Minutes of the Town Council, April 22, 1996
  40. Four governing boards hold a unified public hearing on a new landfill next to the Eubanks Road site The Orange County commissioners, Chapel Hill council, Carrboro aldermen and Hillsborough commissioners took comment on site 17 and three alternatives. Neighbours including David Caldwell, Kathy Schinley and Cornelius Kirschner spoke against it, B.B. Olive presented a 39-signature petition, and Frank Emory, representing Duke University, said the poorest residents lived nearest site 17. People: David Caldwell Jr. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: David Caldwell, Kathy Schinley, Cornelius Kirschner, B.B. Olive, Frank EmoryTown of Chapel Hill: Summary of a Unified Public Hearing on Landfill Matters, June 19, 1996
  41. Assembly of Governments agrees compensation items for neighbors of the landfill Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro met as an Assembly of Governments in 1997 to take up benefits for people living near the Orange Regional Landfill and agreed a set of compensation items. In 2007 Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton wrote that not all of them had been carried out. People: Mark Chilton Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Orange Regional LandfillOrangePolitics: Commissioners discuss waste transfer station tonight
  42. Orange County chooses to keep expanding the Eubanks Road landfill instead of opening a new site With site OC-17 blocked, the county announced it would expand the existing landfill rather than close it. A new construction and demolition landfill was later built on the north side of Eubanks Road. Place: Eubanks Road landfillINDY Week: Digging deeper
  43. Chapel Hill approves digging on the Neville Tract to build new landfill cells The council voted 9 to 0 for a special use permit letting the Orange Regional Landfill take earth from the Neville Tract to build containment cells and for daily cover, with access across landfill property to Eubanks Road. Work was to begin by 1999 and end by 2007. Place: Neville Tract, Eubanks Road · Also mentions: Orange Regional Landfill, Eubanks RoadTown of Chapel Hill: Minutes of the Town Council, July 7, 1997
  44. Duke University easement to NASA stalls landfill candidate site OC-17 Chapel Hill's manager reported that Duke University had filed an easement in favor of NASA on candidate site OC-17, leaving the towns unable to test the land. The council voted 8 to 0 to have the town attorney write to the U.S. Attorney and called an Assembly of Governments for October 22, 1997. People: Cal Horton Place: Chapel HillTown of Chapel Hill: Minutes of the Town Council, October 13, 1997
  45. Chapel Hill sets conditions for new solid waste sites before handing control to the county The council unanimously directed its Landfill Owners Group members to secure a construction and demolition waste site by fall 1998, naming land on the north side of Eubanks Road next to the landfill, with eminent domain if needed, and the Greene Tract as options. It said pending solid waste issues had to be settled before any change in governance. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Greene Tract, Eubanks RoadTown of Chapel Hill: Minutes of the Town Council, July 2, 1998
  46. Chapel Hill backs countywide funding to extend water lines to the Rogers Road neighborhood By a 7 to 2 vote the council said water service lines for the community around the landfill should be paid for from a countywide revenue source so that all county residents share the cost, and opposed using the sales tax for those benefits. Place: Rogers Road, Chapel HillTown of Chapel Hill: Summary Minutes of the Town Council, October 12, 1998
  47. The solid waste interlocal agreement set 60 acres of the Greene Tract aside as Headwaters Preserve The 1999 Solid Waste Management Interlocal Agreement set the terms for disposing of the 104 acres that stayed in joint ownership and allowed 60 acres to be deeded to Orange County, which became the Headwaters Preserve. In 2002 the three governments adopted a resolution identifying acreage on the joint portion for preservation and affordable housing. Place: Greene TractOrange County: Greene Tract Frequently Asked Questions, May 2022
  48. Chapel Hill lets Orange County commissioners pick the next construction and demolition landfill site With the existing construction and demolition landfill expected to fill by summer 2000, the council voted 9 to 0 to let the Board of Commissioners select an in-county replacement site on its behalf, citing time pressure and the expected transfer of solid waste authority to the county. Place: Chapel HillTown of Chapel Hill: Minutes of the Town Council, September 13, 1999
  49. Orange County agrees to build a new construction and demolition landfill tied to a recycling ordinance Because the construction and demolition landfill on Eubanks Road would fill around 2003, the Board of Commissioners agreed to build a new one only if certain bulky materials had to be recycled. The Regulated Recyclable Materials Ordinance took effect on October 1, 2002. Place: Eubanks Road landfillOrange County, NC: Construction & Demolition (Regulated Recyclable Materials Ordinance)
  50. Robert Campbell petitioned Chapel Hill for bus service to the Rogers Road neighborhood Minister Robert Campbell asked the Chapel Hill council to extend free transit service to the Rogers Road community, noting that it lacked sidewalks and sewer service and that children walked along the landfill's heavy truck route. He suggested rerouting underused Airport Road buses. People: Robert Campbell Place: Rogers Road · Also mentions: Airport RoadTown of Chapel Hill: Agenda 3a(2), Petition re Transit Service to Rogers Rd. Community
  51. Carrboro formed the New Horizons task force for the Rogers Road area Carrboro created the New Horizons task force to serve residents of the Rogers Road area it was annexing. The town's Rogers Road sidewalk and bus stop project, begun in 2018, grew out of the task force's work. Place: CarrboroChapelboro: Carrboro Breaks Ground on Rogers Road Sidewalk Project
  52. Chapel Hill council took up how to carry out a Rogers Road small area plan Under a 2002 resolution adopted jointly by Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, Chapel Hill had agreed to plan the residential area west of the Greene Tract around Rogers and Purefoy roads, including an affordable housing site. The manager recommended starting after four neighborhood conservation districts were finished, with the Planning Board leading. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Greene TractTown of Chapel Hill: Agenda item 10, Rogers Road Small Area Plan Report
  53. Carrboro annexed subdivisions on the west side of Rogers Road Carrboro annexed six subdivisions north of Homestead Road, including Fox Meadow and Highlands, bringing part of the Rogers Road area inside town limits. In September 2004 the aldermen had voted 6 to 1 to go ahead even though the historic neighborhood had asked the two towns to move their annexation boundary so the community would not be split. People: Mark Chilton Place: Carrboro · Also mentions: HighlandsINDY Week: Carrboro residents, still smarting from annexation, protest new development
  54. Residents founded the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association About 85 households founded RENA as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, putting a long-running informal community alliance on a formal footing. RENA went on to organize the Coalition to End Environmental Racism and to run the neighborhood's community center. Place: Rogers RoadRogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association: About Us
  55. Rogers–Eubanks Coalition to End Environmental Racism organizes Residents of the Rogers Road and Eubanks Road neighborhood formed the Rogers-Eubanks Coalition to End Environmental Racism in 2007. At the September 20, 2007 Assembly of Governments meeting, member Neloa Jones asked officials to drop the neighborhood as a transfer station site, end solid-waste operations there by November 2009, and provide water and sewer service. People: Robert Campbell Place: Countywide · Also named: Neloa Jones · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Carrboro Citizen: County delays waste transfer station plan (September 27, 2007)
  56. St. Paul AME Church bought land on Rogers Road for a new church campus The Chapel Hill congregation bought more than 22 acres for a worship complex with a banquet hall, wellness center, daycare, senior and affordable housing, athletic fields and a cemetery. The land, at Rogers Road and Purefoy Drive, became the site of the planned St. Paul Village. Place: Rogers Road and Purefoy Drive, Chapel HillSt. Paul AME Church Chapel Hill: History
  57. Orange County commissioners vote to put a waste transfer station at the Eubanks Road landfill The board voted unanimously to develop a solid waste transfer station at the landfill site, following its Solid Waste Advisory Board's recommendation, over objections from Rogers Road residents. The landfill was then expected to fill in 2010. People: Mike Nelson, Robert Campbell, Valerie Foushee Place: Eubanks Road landfillThe Carrboro Citizen: Commissioners approve transfer station for solid waste at Eubanks Road site
  58. Commissioners reopen the search for a transfer station site After Rogers Road residents and the Coalition to End Environmental Racism pressed the county, the Board of Commissioners announced it would reopen its search for a transfer station site. Eubanks Road stayed on the list while consultant Olver Inc. drew up siting criteria. People: Robert Campbell Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Carrboro Citizen: The grassroots of environmental justice
  59. David Caldwell retires as a sheriff's lieutenant to organize in Rogers Road full time Caldwell joined the sheriff's department in 1985 after returning to the area and retired as a lieutenant in 2008 to work full time on community and social justice work. He became project director and community organizer for the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association. People: David Caldwell Jr. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · RENA Community Center: Staff
  60. Commissioners drop Eubanks Road and choose two other transfer station candidates Conceding that the 2007 choice had not adequately weighed its effect on Rogers Road, the commissioners voted 5 to 1 to pursue two other sites, the 143-acre Howell property and an OWASA tract in Bingham Township. Place: Orange CountyINDY Week: Where should Orange County stick its garbage?
  61. Chapel Hill council received the Rogers Road Small Area Plan Task Force's final report Council members Mark Kleinschmidt and Bill Strom presented the report, and the council voted 9 to 0 to send it to advisory boards, Carrboro, Orange County, OWASA and the city schools, with a joint public hearing planned for October 2009. Rev. Robert Campbell of RENA thanked the council for giving the community a voice. People: Robert Campbell, Mark Kleinschmidt Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Bill StromTown of Chapel Hill: Council minutes, March 16, 2009
  62. UNC's library exhibited Rogers Road family histories drawn from Emily Eidenier Pearce's book The exhibit We're All Family Here: Preserving Community Heritage in the Rogers Road Neighborhood of Chapel Hill introduced families who had shaped the area from the 1700s on. It was inspired by Pearce's 2009 history Rogers Road, which RENA presents as part of its History Project. Place: UNC University Library, Chapel Hill · Also named: Emily Eidenier PearceUNC University Library: We're All Family Here, Preserving Community Heritage in the Rogers Road Neighborhood of Chapel Hill
  63. Commissioners vote to truck county trash to Durham's transfer station After OWASA refused to sell or swap land for a transfer station and Chapel Hill withdrew its Millhouse Road property, the Board of Commissioners voted to haul county trash to Durham's transfer station for three to five years while the towns and county weighed a longer-term plan. Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Millhouse RoadThe Carrboro Citizen: Timeline: 2009
  64. RENA opened its first community center on Edgar Road Three years after incorporating as a nonprofit, the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association opened a small community center on Edgar Road so the neighborhood had a place of its own to gather and run programs. Place: Rogers-Eubanks neighborhoodRENA Community Center: About Us
  65. Orange County commissioners raised the landfill tipping fee to pay for Rogers Road remediation Commissioners raised the tipping fee from $52 to $57 a ton to create a remediation fund of about $50,000 to $60,000 a year for water and sewer connections, cleanup of illegal dumping and a community center in Rogers Road. The county also moved $750,000 out of its solid waste reserve for the same purpose. Chapel Hill and Carrboro objected to the timing of the fee. People: Robert Campbell, Mark Kleinschmidt Place: Orange CountyThe Daily Tar Heel: Chapel Hill and Carrboro oppose trash fee
  66. Commissioners decide not to extend the life of the landfill The Board of Commissioners voted not to extend the landfill and approved cleanup of 50 illegal dump sites. In April 2011 it had postponed a decision on deepening the landfill, which could have added capacity to 2018. Place: Eubanks Road landfillRENA Community Center: The Orange County Landfill
  67. Commissioners set the landfill's closing date and created the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force On the night the Orange County commissioners voted to close the landfill on June 30, 2013, they also authorized an eight-member task force, with two members each from Chapel Hill, Carrboro, the county and RENA, to recommend how to deliver sewer service and a community center and how to guard against displacement. An interim report was due that August and a final report to the Assembly of Governments on December 6, 2012. People: Penny Rich, Pam Hemminger Place: Orange CountyTown of Chapel Hill: Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force
  68. Neighbors form the Rogers Road Community Unity Board The Community Unity Board brought together leaders from every sub-neighborhood of Rogers-Eubanks, among them Historic Rogers Road, Billabong, TallyHo, Meadow Run, Phoenix Place and Sandberg, for continuing talks about the area's future. RENA and the Jackson Center reconvened it in 2015 for the planning work the three governments had asked for. People: David Caldwell Jr., Robert Campbell Place: Rogers Road, Chapel HillSearch the index · Orange County: Rogers Road, Mapping our Community's Future, May 2016
  69. EPA accepted RENA's civil rights complaint over water and sewer service for investigation The EPA Office of Civil Rights took up the question whether the Orange County Planning and Inspections Department had intentionally discriminated on the basis of race by denying water and sewer service to the African American residents of Rogers Road. RENA had filed the complaint with the U.S. Justice Department, which referred it to several federal agencies, and it was joined to an earlier complaint against OWASA accepted on November 23, 2009. Place: Orange CountyU.S. EPA: Resolution and Closure, EPA Complaint No. 13R-07-R4
  70. Rogers Road landfill closes The landfill closed at noon on Saturday, June 29, 2013 after 41 years, with a ceremony at which Rogers Road residents symbolically locked the service entrance. The closure plan called for a synthetic cap covered with soil and vegetation, vented so that the county's methane recovery system, which feeds power to UNC buildings, could keep running. People: Robert Campbell Place: Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel: Orange County landfill to close this weekend
  71. Chapel Hill extended its extraterritorial jurisdiction over the Historic Rogers Road area Because none of the neighborhood lay inside Chapel Hill's limits, the town could not legally spend money on its sewer, so the council held a public hearing set for October 15, 2014 on bringing its part of the area under the town's extraterritorial jurisdiction. Afterward the neighborhood was split between Carrboro and Chapel Hill's ETJ. People: Robert Campbell Place: Rogers RoadDaily Tar Heel: Council sets Rogers Road hearing for next month
  72. RENA and the Jackson Center produced the Historic and Vibrant Rogers Road report The Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association and the Marian Cheek Jackson Center put together survey analysis and community feedback on the neighborhood's future. Two years later the same partners ran the planning process behind Mapping our Community's Future. Place: Rogers RoadMarian Cheek Jackson Center: MCJC Reports
  73. The county-funded Rogers Road Community Center opened at 101 Edgar Street Orange County commissioners awarded a $522,488 contract to Riggs-Harrod Builders of Durham on April 1, 2014 after a first round of bids came in at two to three times the authorized budget and the building was redesigned. The larger center, with a community room, kitchen, computer lab and outdoor courts, opened that December a short walk from RENA's 2010 building. Place: Rogers-Eubanks neighborhoodRENA Community Center: About Us
  74. RENA and the Jackson Center published the Rogers Road community plan commissioned by the three governments In July 2015 Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro asked the Marian Cheek Jackson Center and RENA to run a community-first planning process as sewer design advanced. The resulting report, built from nine Unity Board sessions and two rounds of interviews, set four priorities for the neighborhood and became the reference document for the later zoning districts and Greene Tract resolutions. People: Robert Campbell, David Caldwell Jr. Place: Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood · Also mentions: Greene TractOrange County: Rogers Road, Mapping our Community's Future
  75. Ground was broken on the sewer extension to the historic Rogers Road area Orange County, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, OWASA and RENA held a groundbreaking at the RENA Community Center on Edgar Street after the sanitary sewer design was finished and a contractor hired. Construction was to begin in July 2017 and run 10 to 12 months. People: Robert Campbell Place: Rogers-Eubanks neighborhoodTown of Carrboro: Sewer Construction in the Historic Rogers Road Area Will Begin This Summer
  76. Carrboro broke ground on the Rogers Road sidewalk and bus stop project A $1.37 million project put a five-foot sidewalk from the west side of Rogers Road to Meadow Run Court, together with a new bus pad and shelter. Ground was broken in late June 2018 and construction began that fall. The project traced back to a New Horizons task force created in 2005. Place: CarrboroChapelboro: Carrboro Breaks Ground on Rogers Road Sidewalk Project
  77. Chapel Hill and Carrboro created Historic Rogers Road zoning districts The Chapel Hill Town Council closed its public hearing on May 22, 2019 and enacted Land Use Management Ordinance amendments establishing new zoning districts for the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood. Carrboro added Section 15-136.1 to its Land Use Ordinance on June 18, 2019, creating the HR-R and HR-CC districts expressly to carry out the Mapping Our Community's Future plan. Place: Rogers-Eubanks neighborhoodTown of Chapel Hill: File #19-0481, Zoning Districts for the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood
  78. The Rogers Road sewer extension was placed in service OWASA put the extension into service on June 27, 2019 after the state accepted the as-built certification, ending a wait that residents traced to the 1972 landfill agreement. About 3.5 miles of sewer had been laid, and the neighborhood held a celebration at the community center on June 3. Individual owners still had to pay to connect their homes. People: Penny Rich Place: Rogers-Eubanks neighborhoodU.S. EPA: Resolution and Closure, EPA Complaint No. 13R-07-R4
  79. EPA closed the Rogers Road civil rights complaint as moot The EPA External Civil Rights Compliance Office told the Orange County attorney that Complaint No. 13R-07-R4 was closed because interlocal agreements to which the county was a party had produced a completed water and sewer extension, and because OWASA is bound by those agreements to serve Rogers Road residents who connect. The letter found no systemic issues left to investigate and made no finding of discrimination. Place: Orange CountyU.S. EPA: Resolution and Closure, EPA Complaint No. 13R-07-R4
  80. The three governments adopted an interlocal agreement on the future of the Greene Tract The agreement required Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro to act jointly in hiring consultants, entering development agreements and taking public input, put the mayors, chair and managers in a working group to negotiate the ultimate uses, and stated an initial intent covering mixed use and affordable housing, a school site with recreation, a joint preserve and connectivity. A November 2021 resolution then approved the recombination plat and the conceptual plan for the 60-acre county tract and the 107-acre joint tract. Place: Greene TractOrange County: Greene Tract Frequently Asked Questions, May 2022

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Rogers Road

Pearce, Emily Eidenier · 2009

Emily Eidenier Pearce's history of Rogers Road, the historically African American neighborhood on the edge of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and of what happened to it after Orange County opened its landfill next door in 1972. Drawing on interviews with residents, the book records the neighborhood's origins, family life, churches and customs, and then the environmental and social burdens of decades beside the landfill. Privately issued in 2009, 298 pages with illustrations, maps and portraits.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Rogers Road (Orange County, N.C.).

✓ Held at OCPL · 975.656 EID NC Cardinal UNC Durham Chapel Hill PL CH Historical Society

Report on socioeconomic and demographic data for the Orange regional landfill and the four alternative landfill sites that are being considered for a new landfill

Town of Chapel Hill Planning Dept · 1996

A June 19, 1996, report by the Town of Chapel Hill Planning Department presenting 1990 census data on the areas around the Orange regional landfill and four alternative sites under consideration for a new landfill, prepared under North Carolina General Statutes 160A-325 and 153A-136(c), which call for such review before a landfill is sited.

Included because: Its title names this subject.

UNC

Regeneration of a wasteland : design alternatives for the reuse of the Orange County, NC landfill

Buck, Kathleen King · 2001

Kathleen King Buck's master of landscape architecture project at North Carolina State University, proposing design alternatives for reusing the Orange County landfill site. Completed in 2001 in 63 leaves with illustrations, plans and maps, several of them in color. Topics include earthwork fills in the county along with the design, construction and environmental aspects of waste disposal sites.

Included because: Its title names this subject.

NC State

Out of sight, out of mind : a contingent valuation analysis of the siting of sanitary landfills

Woo, Lillian G. · 1996

Lillian G. Woo applied contingent valuation, the method economists use to price goods that are not traded, to the siting of sanitary landfills, with Orange County among the North Carolina cases. Environmental policy, public goods valuation and landfill location are the subjects. A 26 page landfill survey sits in a pocket at the end, and the bibliography runs from leaf 249 to 259. Dated 1996.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sanitary landfills -- North Carolina -- Orange County.

UNC

Report of preliminary engineering evaluations : Orange regional landfill site search

1995 · Joyce Engineering, Inc.

Joyce Engineering of Greensboro prepared this February 1995 report on preliminary engineering evaluations for the Orange regional landfill site search, examining candidate sites for a new landfill. One volume of various pagings with illustrations and maps, issued in a loose leaf binder. Topics include sanitary landfills, sanitary engineering and engineering geology in Orange County.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sanitary landfills -- North Carolina -- Orange County.

UNC

Economic cost analysis in MSW landfill siting : the Orange County case study

Henrikson, Brett · 1994

Brett Henrikson's 1994 honors paper at Duke University works through the economics of siting a municipal solid waste landfill, using Orange County as its case study. Topics include the location and the costs of sanitary landfills, both in the county and in the United States generally. A typescript of 41 numbered leaves followed by 74 more that are unnumbered.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Sanitary landfills -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Costs -- Case studies.

Duke
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Supplemental information packet : Orange County landfill site search

1994 · Joyce Engineering, Inc.

A supplemental packet of information for the Orange County landfill site search, dated 26 September 1994 and prepared by Joyce Engineering of Greensboro. One volume of various pagings with illustrations and maps, four further pages of maps inserted. It belongs to the run of consultant reports produced while the county looked for a regional landfill site.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sanitary landfills -- North Carolina -- Orange County.

UNC

Mass political participation in the local context : a case study

Peek, Leigh A. · 1992

Leigh A. Peek's case study of the Coalition to Remove Site OC-5, the group that organized against a proposed municipal solid waste landfill in Orange County. The paper uses the fight as an example of mass political participation at the local level, concerning land use, political participation and sanitary landfills in the county. Dated 1992, bibliography on leaves 29 to 30.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sanitary landfills -- North Carolina -- Orange County.

UNC

Report of additional services to the landfill site search : Orange regional landfill

1991 · Joyce Engineering, Inc.

Dated 11 November 1991, a report of additional services carried out by Joyce Engineering of Greensboro in the search for a site for the Orange regional landfill. One volume of various pagings with illustrations and maps, issued in a spiral binding. Topics include the location of sanitary landfills and engineering geology in Orange County.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sanitary landfills -- North Carolina -- Orange County.

UNC

Survey of solid waste management activities, Region J, North Carolina

Triangle J Council of Governments; North Carolina. Department of Natural Resources and Community Development · 1980 · Triangle J Council of Governments

Triangle J Council of Governments surveyed solid waste activities across Region J in 1980, taking in Chatham, Durham, Johnston, Lee, Orange and Wake counties. Refuse collection, disposal practice and sanitary landfills are treated county by county. Preparation was financed in part by a state planning assistance grant.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sanitary landfills -- North Carolina -- Orange County.

UNC

Michael R. Nelson papers, circa 1890-2012

Nelson, Michael R., 1963- · 1890

Roughly 2,000 items in 6.5 linear feet kept as the papers of Michael R. Nelson, born 1963, dated from about 1890 to 2012, collection 70140 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Topics include politics and government in Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Orange County, campaign paraphernalia, and gay activists and politicians in North Carolina, naming Joseph A. Herzenberg, 1941 to 2007.

Included because: The record names this subject alongside a heading for the county or its towns.

UNC

Orange County Landfill (Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file)

Orange County's landfill, followed through newspaper clippings, photocopied articles, promotional materials, reports and maps. Undated folder in box 32 of the Carrboro and Orange County series, Chapel Hill Historical Society Vertical File Collection (CHHS.001).

Included because: Its title names this subject.

CH Historical Society

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