Ash coal dump sites map around Charlotte and Mooresville
Charlotte known Ash Coal Dump Sites
More detail maps about dump sites of ash coal and other chemicals
Here are some helpful FB groups that keep that info up to date: Cancer Cluster Army
More info about cancer cluster and cancer related to it
Just Google “cancer cluster charlotte”, “cancer cluster lake norman”, “cancer cluster huntersville”
Huntersville and Mooresville, two Charlotte suburbs in the Lake Norman area, continue to struggle to explain growing cancer clusters. And in two Iredell County ZIP codes that include Mooresville, where officials expected about 46 cases of thyroid cancer, they observed 110 cases (source: Erik Ortiz, NBC news). CancerClustersNBCarticle.pdf
Left without a clear answer, many citizens turned their attention to the Duke Energy Marshall Steam Station, which is located on the Lake Norman waterfront and contains 17 million tons of coal ash in an unlined basin.
Coal ash can contain carcinogens, such as lead and mercury. In addition to cancer, Davidson students and Environmental Science majors Corey Cochran ’21 and Kat Soltany ’22 emphasize other health risks associated with coal ash.
For Mooresville and Huntersville, the coal ash at the Marshall Steam Station is not the only problem. The WCNC investigation also found that from 1995 to 2001, the plant sold coal ash for construction purposes as well and only saved records for large sales. This means that an unidentifiable amount of coal ash is in the area, and its precise location is unknown.
