Part 8: Encroachment by Wake Stone Corporation (aka Vulcan Materials Company) into the William B. Umstead State Park

This is the eighth in a series of blogs regarding encroachment into Umstead State Park by the Raleigh-Durham Airport (RDU) and Wake Stone Corporation (aka Vulcan Materials). This is important as they are taking actual Park land (which has federal deed restrictions) and turning it into a rock quarry pit, putting the public within 25’ of a heavy industrial site and within 100’ of an active mine pit.

As stated in Part 1, a review of the property boundary between William B. Umstead State Park in the area of the PD Davis tract and the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority (RDUAA) MANAGED property to the south, known as the Odd Fellows tract, shows that the boundary of the Odd Fellows tract has been shifted northerly, encroaching over 120 feet into William B. Umstead State Park resulting in a 14-ish acre loss to the Park (and the land has federal deed restrictions).

Links to preceding articles

·Part 1 discusses how this encroachment was discovered and can be found at this link: https://substack.com/home/post/p-173593652

·Part 2 discusses the question “Where is the Southwest corner of the PD Davis tract (aka the Northwest corner of the Odd Fellows tract)” and can be found at this link: https://substack.com/home/post/p-174399099

·Part 3 discusses the question “Where is the Southeast corner of the PD Davis tract (aka the Northeast corner of the Odd Fellows tract)?” and can be found at this link: https://substack.com/home/post/p-174944447

·Part 4 discusses the question “What is the position and length of the Southern border of Tract 2a (aka the Northern boundary Tract 21)?” and can be found at this link: https://substack.com/home/post/p-175015946

·Part 5 provides additional evidence that the Page-Duke-Davis corner is a known and agreed upon point, that RDU has known about this point for decades and can be found at this link: https://substack.com/home/post/p-175631634

·Part 6 discusses the origin of RDU’s encroachment error: Crabtree Creek moved, outdated metes and bounds were used, etc. and can be found at this link: https://substack.com/home/post/p-176059487

·Part 7 is an Assessment of RDU’s 16/May/2024 response denying that a border encroachment issue has occurred and can be found at this link: https://substack.com/home/post/p-176932545

·Some history of the Odd Fellows tract can be found at this link: https://substack.com/home/post/p-154102471

·Does RDU’s land use plan break their Vision 204 federal grant obligations?: https://substack.com/home/post/p-153209256

·Some general history regarding RDU and Umstead State Park can be found at this link: https://substack.com/@rduforestsaga

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Disclaimer: I am an independent researcher. The information presented above is what I have found through publicly available records and my opinions formed from these records. My goal is to be 100% truthful. If you see something you think is not correct, please let me know.