The fight over the perceived safety of homeowners along Lathrop Road hit a new gear on Monday night when the woman leading the charge against the city’s road-widening project accused the city of not properly handling what she believes to be asbestos-filled concrete that was unearthed during the project. According to Adriana Lopez – the only property owner that refused to sell a portion of her property to the City of Lathrop to allow the widening project to proceed as originally designed – the concrete chunks that were ground up and disposed of before any testing took place could very well be full of the naturally-occurring, cancer-causing agent that would have become airborne as a result of how it was disposed of. While Lopez said that the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District has since taken air and soil samples that are currently being analyzed in a laboratory, the city maintains that there has been no indication that asbestos was present in any concrete that was dug up and noted that it’s typically not something that’s found in concrete that is used in the way that sidewalks and roadways are.