EPA cleanup of contamintated site continues in Kannapolis

  • By Hugh Fisher
    hfisher@salisburypost.com
  • Saturday, December 1th, 2012
    Pete Crainshaw points to pictures he said he took of what appear to be dead lizards in the waters of a creek near the Villa Mobile Home Park. The park is the site of an EPA clean-up operation due to battery casings and contaminated soil dating back decades. Photo by Hugh Fisher.

    Pete Crainshaw points to pictures he said he took of what appear to be dead lizards in the waters of a creek near the Villa Mobile Home Park. The park is the site of an EPA clean-up operation due to battery casings and contaminated soil dating back decades. Photo by Hugh Fisher.

    Warning signs surround the excavation at the Villa Mobile Home Park in Kannapolis, where the EPA is digging for contaminated soil and battery casings left there in years past. Photo by Hugh Fisher.

    Warning signs surround the excavation at the Villa Mobile Home Park in Kannapolis, where the EPA is digging for contaminated soil and battery casings left there in years past. Photo by Hugh Fisher.