2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 21:36:47 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] CTS Asheville (North Carolina) petition
 
Buncombe residents petition Gov. Purdue, DENR officials for CTS cleanup

by Margaret Williams
Mountain Xpress (NC)
May 19, 2009

Demanding a "full, proper and time-critical cleanup" of the CTS site in south Asheville, local residents have collected about 3,100 petition signatures, recently delivered in a 5-pound package to North Carolina Gov. Beverly Purdue and the state's Division of Waste Management.

The immediate issue involves a proposed voluntary-cleanup agreement between the state and CTS, which once operated an electroplating plant on Mills Gap Road. The agreement sets a $3 million cap on the company's cleanup of trichloroethylene and other toxins found at the site and in local groundwater supplies. Residents argue that a 2002 order from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency overrides any such agreement because the site was declared an imminent hazard, still poses a health threat, and has seen little in the way of substantive cleanup. The petition declares: "We, the undersigned, demand immediate action from the U.S. EPA on the preceding Formal Order of Enforcement of 2002. Enforcement of this Federal Order precedes and supersedes any state or county agreement with CTS. There should be no cleanup cost limitation awarded, at any future tax-payer expense, to the parties responsible for the contamination and the endangerment from a delayed clean-up resulting in both loss of health/life and property values."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mountainx.com/news/2009/buncombe_residents_petition_gov_purdue_denr_officials_for_cts_cleanup

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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