January 31, 2011 – Scott Griffin remembers when wind shifts stirred a rotten-egg smell on the Catawba River near his Mount Holly home.
Just across the river, in neighboring Mecklenburg County, he could see the source: a waterside chemical plant. The operation closed in 2005 but is still a federal Superfund hazardous waste cleanup site. Meanwhile, for six years, Griffin and others have been working to develop an 11-mile greenway along the Catawba, part of a Mount Holly