EdgeAn excellent story from the #AVLWatchdog about the PVC pipe plant next to the French Broad River here in Asheville, and the absolute mess that occurred with Hurricane Helene... and continues to this day.
20 months after Helene, plastic pipe from Silver-Line factory in Woodfin continues to choke French Broad River
The town of Woodfin’s largest employer, Silver-Line Plastics, sits snug on the eastern bank of the French Broad River. For years, a grassy embankment separated its inventory — tight curls of black tubing and ramrod lengths of white PVC pipe stacked in chunky rectangular piles — from the water. On Sept. 27, 2024, swollen by Tropical Storm […]
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Jeri Dansky