[MAY 29, 2025 – new files added to SEABOARD/HIGH POINT LANDFILL records, here.]

This is for the reader who asked us for confirmation: Yes. The body of water bordering High Point Landfill-Seaboard Chemical Dump to the north and east is DEEP RIVER, known to the NC DEQ and EPA as segment number NC17-(4)b and not Randleman Lake. This is how this segment of Deep River (NC17-4b) is presented in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “How’s My Waterway” database, TODAY, May 26, 2025:

PTRWA has purchased a lot of LAND along the banks of Deep River, but not all of it. Deep River from High Point City Lake to where the impoundment begins (northwest of Level Cross) is still the same Deep River it always was, just dirtier [source: Google Maps]:

Recent correspondence (March 2025) from the NC Dept. of Environmental Quality says the same – Deep River is Deep River, and PTRWA owns the bank/buffer:

Deep River from High Point City Lake to Randleman Lake is a Water of the United States (WOTUS), open to the public for fishing, recreational use, kayaking/rowing, wading and swimming. IF Deep River were properly tested, monitored and overseen by the local and state authorities, it would probably be off limits for most of those activities due to the high amounts of chemicals, biological impairments, and industrial wastewater.

Here’s a bigger view of Deep River from High Point City Lake to Randleman Lake. This is a screenshot from the EPA’s “How’s my Waterway” database, TODAY, May 26, 2025 (we added the labels so you’ll know what you’re looking at:

This is the March 2014 property deed plat, in the Guilford County records:

While digging up the maps to answer this inquiry, we came across some new info: historical documents listing who’s responsible for the remediation/clean-up at the site (which will be shared in the next post), and the ACTUAL acreage of the High Point Landfill/Seaboard property – it’s 163 acres. This is from the NCDEQ employee who inspected the property in December 2024 (the red comments are ours):