Campbell, president of the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association and co-author of the study. “We are glad to see a scientific study that shows how our neighborhood has been burdened for so long,” said Minister Robert L. Additionally, the neighboring towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro only partially have annexed the community and do not provide water, sewer or other basic services available in nearby areas that have been annexed. Located in a neighborhood in which residents are mostly lower income and African-American, the site receives garbage from more affluent communities. Neighbors and their supporters believe placement of the landfill stemmed from environmental racism. The county recently reversed its plans to add a waste transfer station in the low-income neighborhood, yet continues to haul municipal waste to the landfill. Since that time, residents have organized to oppose its expansion. The regional landfill is located in the historically African-American Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood and has received garbage from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the county and other areas since 1972. The study was conducted by researchers from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Healthin partnership with the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association in Orange County.
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