CHAPEL HILL -- UNC-Chapel Hill, its environmental consultant and its remediation contractor will hold a public meeting March 5 at 5:30 p.m. to present information about the clean up of a chemical waste disposal site near the Horace Williams Airport.

The meeting will be in Room 2202 of the Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) building at 1120 Estes Drive Extension. Parking is available adjacent to the building, in the lot at the corner of Estes Drive Extension and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Handicap parking is available at the entrance to EHS off Estes Drive Extension. Chapel Hill Transit service is available via the A, NS and T routes. See www.townofchapelhill.org/index.asp?NID=399 for timetables of these routes.

Carolina used the 0.2-acre site between 1973 and 1979 to bury laboratory chemical waste generated by the campus and what then was N.C. Memorial Hospital, using accepted and legal disposal methods of that era. The university obtained authorization to dispose of waste at the site from the state government authority overseeing waste disposal at that time.

The site does not appear on the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund national priority list.