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This is a list of Superfund sites in North Carolina designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. . The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations
The railroad came to Cherokee County in 1887, with Georgia & North Carolina Railroad's narrow gauge line from Marietta to Culberson – then the largest town in the county. [7] The train reached Murphy the following year. [20] The county's newspaper, the Cherokee Scout, was founded in 1889. [21]
In Sampson County, September 2023 samples found PFAS levels as high as 727,368 parts per trillion in a closed municipal landfill and 1,422,796 ppt in the still-operating municipal landfill.
Map of Warren County from a 1983 United States General Accounting Office report, asterisk denotes PCB landfill site. The controversy dated back to 1978, when a transformer company in Raleigh began to dump industrial waste containing PCBs along rural roads in fifteen North Carolina counties rather than pay for proper disposal.
Peachtree is a community located in Cherokee County, North Carolina. [1] It is named after the numerous peach trees found in the area. Due to its central location near the border of Cherokee and Clay counties, Peachtree has also been home to major institutions serving the area.
Murphy is a town in and the county seat of Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States. [4] It is situated at the confluence of the Hiwassee and Valley rivers. It is the westernmost county seat in the state of North Carolina, approximately 360 miles (580 km) from the state capital in Raleigh. The population of Murphy was 1,608 at the 2020 ...
Bellview is an unincorporated community in Cherokee County, in the U.S. state of North Carolina. [1] It is part of Notla Township, [2] and is located immediately north of the Georgia border, about 10 miles south of Murphy, NC. Its average elevation is 1800 feet (549 m) above sea level. [3] U.S. Route 19 is the main highway through Bellview.
The ordinance allows any adult, including North Carolina residents and others, to buy products at the tribe’s cannabis superstore that opened April 20 near Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort.