For over 40 years, Crescent Resources was the home building arm of Duke Energy.
Duke began buying up land on the Catawba River in the 1920’s.
Around 1969,, most of the land that hadn’t been used to create dams, coal fired and nuclear plants, was handed over to Crescent.
There were also several LLC companies under Crescent, created to develop neighborhoods. Like The Point. The Peninsula. etc. In 2006, Duke separated from Crescent. In 2009, Crescent filed for bankruptcy.
Duke Energy and Crescent were allowed to use coal ash as dirt, without recording the sites with the deeds. That means they didn’t have to tell the property owners that they used coal ash in the construction of neighborhoods, roads, embankments, parks, golf courses, schools, etc.
The goal of the map is for a cancer patient to quickly determine if they are living in a Duke Energy/Crescent neighborhood, and possibly near coal ash.
I hope to eventually identify the roads with many cancer cases, and test for the ash.
I am not saying there is coal ash on every property they owned.
I am saying we know for a fact that Duke Energy was allowed to resell the coal ash.
We know Duke was giving away hundreds of thousands of tons of coal ash to churches and disabled kids camps, like they were doing the public a favor.
We know Duke was allowed to reuse the ash themselves. Every coal fired plant in NC, is built on coal ash used as dirt.
Even McGuire Nuclear plant is built on the ash.
If coal ash was used on Crescent properties, then the public deserves to know.
Warning signs. Exposure inspections. Groundwater inspections. Record the fills with the deeds.
I also feel this map shows a real estate scam.
Pretty sure people didn’t sell the family farm, so Duke Energy could profit from million dollar neighborhoods.
Duke Energy Crescent Resources properties & the hunt for Coal Ash-Piedmont & Catawba River area
