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It Only Took Three Months for Industry to Return to the Shingle Mountain Site
The shingles are gone, but the landowner wants to use the property for metal sorting. Marsha Jackson, who lives next door, says her home reeks of diesel fuel.
By Matt Goodman
Published in
FrontBurner
May 14, 2021
2:34 pm
Marsha Jackson has another fight on her hands. For three years, her neighbor was a six-story-tall dump of shingles, which came to be known as Shingle Mountain. It stood there for years as lawsuits wended their way through the courts. Last year, the city finally reached a settlement with one of the landowners to have the pile hauled to the nearby McCommas Bluff Landfill. It was fully removed by February, and the city vowed to begin an environmental assessment and consider acquiring the land, a right given to the city in the settlement.
Amid the worst environmental racism still heaped on vulnerable Dallas residents, Paul Quinn College joins the fight
Amid the worst environmental racism still heaped on vulnerable Dallas residents, Paul Quinn College joins the fight
How its new Urban Research Initiative is helping neighbors and advocates trying to rid Floral Farms of a legacy of Shingle Mountain and other industrial hazards.
Five-year-old David Rojas rides his bike in front of his family s home on Bird Lane in the Floral Farms neighborhood of southeast Dallas. Eighteen-wheelers and other commercial trucks use the narrow street many times daily to get to an industrial recycling and waste disposal site on Bird Lane.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)