Shingle Mountain

After a years-long battle by residents to protect their land, the Dallas City Council delayed deciding whether to rezone the former "Shingle Mountain" site.

The Dallas City Plan Commission is looking at a zoning change that could keep heavy polluters out of the neighborhood that was once home to the toxic 'Shingle Mountain.'

Two years after the removal of a pile of roofing materials known "Shingle Mountain," Dallas is removing lead-contaminated soil from the southeast Dallas site. —

Dallas residents allege that the City of Dallas allowed Black and brown residential neighborhoods to be zoned next to industrial pollutants and are requesting a federal investigation.

Some city leaders worry that lead contamination at a Southeast Dallas site where tons of shingles and other construction material had been dumped may also have contaminated parts of the surrounding neighborhood.

Southeast Dallas residents who live near the former Shingle Mountain site want the city council to approve a $2 million cleanup of toxic lead and arsenic contamination.

Watch the State of the Arts conversation recorded at the Dallas Museum of Art

For her installation at the Dallas Museum of Art, artist Ari Brielle chose to highlight Floral Farms resident Marsha Jackson and her efforts to remove a toxic dump from her neighborhood.

Shingle Mountain is gone. Can art and design help the Floral Farms neighborhood heal from environmental injustice? Join KERA at the Dallas Museum of Art for a conversation with the people working to help the neighborhood flourish.

The new park would replace the vacant lot of about 4 acres, where the notorious Shingle Mountain once stood. Shingle Mountain was the 100,000-ton pile of hazardous waste that loomed over the community for three years. Residents said it “stood as a vivid reminder of their worth to the city.”

A recent environmental assessment of the former Shingle Mountain site found alarming levels of lead in the soil. Neighborhood residents are worried about their health, their homes and future plans for a park on the site.

A coalition of more than 10 community organizations met to discuss a proposed City of Dallas land-use policy change and how it will impact neighborhood-led plans like Floral Farms'.