Dukeville is a populated place in

Rowan County, North Carolina Rowan County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina that was formed in 1753, as part of the British Province of North Carolina. It was originally a vast territory with unlimited western boundaries, but its size was reduced to 524 sq mi ...

, United States. It was built as a

mill village A mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, usually cotton mills or factories producing textiles. Europe Italy * ''Crespi d'Adda'', UNESCO World Her ...

along the banks of the

Yadkin River The Yadkin River is one of the longest rivers in North Carolina, flowing . It rises in the northwestern portion of the state near the Blue Ridge Parkway's Thunder Hill Overlook. Several parts of the river are impounded by dams for water, p ...

in 1926 to house plant employees of the

Buck Steam Station The Buck Steam Station is a 369-Watt, MW formerly coal-fired electrical power plant, owned by Duke Energy. There are also three natural gas-fueled gas turbine, combustion turbines at the location that provide an additional 93 MW (and which began o ...

, owned by Duke Energy. In 2014, residents living near the

in Dukeville were told that "

coal ash Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when de ...

pits near their homes could be leaching dangerous materials into groundwater." The issue became a documentary film for the 2017

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* * Environmental impact of the coal industry Water pollution in the United States Unincorporated communities in Rowan County, North Carolina Unincorporated communities in North Carolina {{RowanCountyNC-geo-stub