20 months after Helene, plastic pipe from Silver-Line factory in Woodfin continues to choke French Broad River • Asheville Watchdog

20 months after Helene, plastic pipe from Silver-Line factory in Woodfin continues to choke French Broad River • Asheville Watchdog

The town of Woodfin’s largest employer, Silver-Line Plastics, sits snug on the eastern bank of the French Broad River. For years, a grassy embankment separated its inventory — tight curls of black tubing and ramrod lengths of white PVC pipe stacked in chunky rectangular piles — from the water.  On Sept. 27, 2024, swollen by Tropical Storm […]