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Congregation of Community Leaders discussing the placement of the Eubanks Road landfill
A group of black community leaders came together under a tree to discuss the placement of a landfill that would be constructed on Eubanks road. -
Promises made by the town of Chapel Hill
Town of Chapel Hill promised to build a community center when the landfill reached capacity, extend water lines, and extend sewage lines to the neglected communities. -
Dumping oil and transferring the waste into an Afton landfill
A trucker and his son dumped hazardous oil containing PCBs. In conjunction with the EPA the hazardous waste was moved into the an Afton landfill. This would soon have unprecedented health effects on the communities nearing the landfill. -
Difficulties in constructing the landfill
As construction moved along on the landfill, organizations sent in organizers to assist the protesters there and essentially perform crowd control. -
Concrete evidence of environmental racism proven by the United Church of Christ
The United Church of Christ compiled a report that contained concrete evidence that these landfills were almost always built near hispanic and black communities which should not have occured. -
Health problems caused by the dumping of hazardous waste near communities
A review found that increases in self-reported health problems were common (there was a rise in health problems in the area that were getting extremely intense) -
Broken Promises
Instead of closing the landfill on Eubanks Road, the board voted unanimously to approve a solid-waste transfer station as an addition to the already sprawling complex -
Campbell filed a claim with the EPA for the neglect from the town and breaking the promises made in 1972
Campbell filed a claim with the E.P.A.’s Office of Civil Rights. -
Lack of formal evidence in the claim filed by Campbell
An independent review of the E.P.A.’s track record, conducted by Deloitte in 2011, found that the agency had “not adequately adjudicated Title VI complaints.” In its forty-five years of existence, the agency has yet to make a single formal finding of discrimination. -
Some success after almost 50 years
Soon after the supposed "lack of formal evidence" the E.P.A. announced that it would investigate part of Campbell’s claim. -
Another win for the Rogers-Eubanks communities
The following year after the investigation found water and air contamination, county officials decided to extend water and sewer services. -
Finally the community center was built