Asbestos removal - Mecklenburg County
Pineville, 11 miles south of Uptown Charlotte on the South Carolina line, had 10,602 residents in 2020 and still has a whole mill village: the Pineville Mill Village Historic District holds 77 contributing buildings, frame mill houses built after 1894 and in the 1920s. The Dover Yarn Mills built the village, and the Chadwick-Hoskins Company later expanded it.
Pineville sits on the South Carolina line, 11 miles south of Uptown, and it kept something most Charlotte-area mill towns lost: an intact village. The Pineville Mill Village Historic District counts 77 contributing buildings, mostly frame mill houses built after 1894 and in the 1920s. The Dover Yarn Mills built the village, and the Chadwick-Hoskins Company later expanded it.
The original mill houses were simple frame buildings. The asbestos questions come from what was added over the following decades: new floor coverings laid over old boards, siding over the original weatherboard, textured ceilings, and heating systems with insulated pipe or ducts. Two houses on the same street can have had very different updates, so each one needs its own samples before anything is torn out.
Pineville's village is the kind of place where one owner may be renovating several similar houses at once. That can change how the rules apply. Mecklenburg County Air Quality's residential demolition questionnaire asks whether a project involves more than one residential building, and the EPA has treated a group of houses under one owner as an installation covered by the federal asbestos rule, even when each house has four or fewer units. Ask MCAQ before a multi-house project starts.
Away from the village, Pineville is much newer: the median home dates from 1999, and about 17 percent of homes predate 1980. Asbestos notices for all of it go to Mecklenburg County Air Quality, 10 working days ahead of a regulated job.
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