The three-year fight to remove shingle mountain from a Dallas neighborhood appears over.
City officials have told residents in an area near South Central Expressway and Choate that they will begin removing asphalt shingles from a huge pile in one week.
Some are cautiously optimistic.
"Been almost three years and we've been hearing this kind of stuff before," said Marsha Jackson, who lives next door to the tile pile. "They came in and showed me just the different maps where they had some of the markers they put around us and where they will be watching it."
A judge signed an order last week that allows the city to remove the shingles. The order not only ends the fight over an eyesore, the residents say it will improve their health. Jackson says the times have spewed chemicals into the air that make it hard to breathe and have clogged filters in the air cleansing systems in her home.
The city says first truckloads should leave the pile in a week and should be completely gone in 90-days.
