[CPEO-BIF] TCE "hit" near CTS Asheville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A well of discontent: new findings in CTS case

by Margaret Williams
Asheville Mountain Xpress
September 9, 2009

Despite lying less than a half-mile from a contamination source that's 
been under investigation since the 1990s, the Bradley family's drinking 
well had never been tested when David Bradley noticed some folks 
drilling across the street from his South Asheville home on a mid-August 
day this year.

Bradley crossed Chapel Hill Church Road to chat, recalls his 
daughter-in-law,  Jenny Bradley. The work crew turned out to be 
collecting groundwater samples for an ongoing state and federal 
evaluation of chemical contamination spreading from a 57-acre site on 
Mills Gap Road, where CTS of Asheville manufactured electrical 
components from the mid-1950s until about 1986 (see "Fail Safe?" July 
11, 2007, Xpress). In the years since, 47 acres were sold to a private 
developer who built Southside Village, and about nine acres, which are 
owned by Mills Gap Road Associates, remain vacant.

....

So on that August day,  David Bradley asked the crew to sample his 
family's 500-feet-deep well. They did, and the results indicated 840 
parts per billion of TCE —168 times greater than the 5 ppb that the EPA 
has set as the maximum allowed for drinking water.

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.mountainx.com/features/2009/090909the_green_scene

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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