Op-Ed: Wake County’s Buried Past Deserves Daylight

Op-Ed: Wake County’s Buried Past Deserves Daylight

Most of us know what surrounds our homes: the schools, parks, shopping centers, and roads. But many Wake County residents may not know what lies beneath some of them. North Carolina’s official inventory identifies 34 pre-regulatory landfills and dumps in Wake County. These are not simply the large, modern landfills most of us picture. The list includes old municipal dumps and private disposal sites in Raleigh, Cary, Apex, Garner, Holly Springs, …