New reports on the contaminated High Point Landfill/Seaboard Chemical Dump* property show that the site’s 30+ year problems with high levels of 1,4 DIOXANE and VOCs (benzene, vinyl chloride, chlorobenzene and more) continue. In August, METHANE GAS was detected at levels above the “explosive” limit. The 163-acre site is located four miles south of Jamestown’s Main Street, and six miles upstream from the northern edge of Randleman Lake.

Read this excerpt from one of the HUNDREDS of public comments submitted in the early 1990s by local citizens and health professionals who said that the idea of using Deep River as a drinking water supply for humans was outrageous. This 3-page letter was typed by a gentleman who talks about what his employer dumped, and what he saw being dumped, at the Old High Point Landfill/Seaboard site (swipe left to read in its entirety):

Last month’s Methane Gas monitoring took place at what is now referred to as the “Inactive High Point Landfill” site (on August 12, 2024) and resulted in this notification:

We pulled the site map out of the report and added labels to illustrate the location of the methane monitoring wells. In the map attached to the detection notice, the wells are shown in green on the old High Point Landfill:

The map below shows the area that the High Point Landfill/Seaboard representatives determined to be the 1,500 foot radius from the property border (in green):

The site maps in Seaboard’s reports identify this segment of Deep River (NC17-4b) as “Randleman Lake.” PTRWA owns most, but not all of the banks along Deep River in this segment. From this point, Deep River flows south for five miles before reaching the northern edge of Randleman Lake in Randolph County.

This is Seaboard’s 2nd quarter 2024 report with the latest lab results and measurements for the amounts of 1,4 Dioxane and Volatile Organic Compounds at the site:

This a letter from Seaboard and the City of High Point to the NC DEQ dated May 20, 2024, transmitting a “Receptor Survey” for wells and drinking water sources within 1,500 FEET of the Seaboard/Landfill site. A receptor survey is conducted when there is the potential for off-site migration of groundwater contamination (a groundwater “plume”):

This map shows how far the 1,500′ Receptor Survey extended. Parcel number 29 is the GFL Construction & Demolition Landfill, which just had new wells installed to monitor 1,4 Dioxane in the groundwater that is leaching into Richland Creek (bottom left corner), which empties into Deep River:

*The Old High Point Landfill is an inactive landfill, parceled with the Seaboard Chemical Dump property – It is not to be confused with the GFL Construction & Demolition Landfill that goes by the name “WI High Point Landfill,” an active landfill located across the street (Riverdale Drive) and uphill from the Seaboard/High Point Landfill. It, too, is addressed in Jamestown, 27282.