2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:45:49 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] High levels of TCE at CTS Asheville, North Carolina
 
Off the chart: UNCA prof tracks CTS mother lode

By Susan Andrew
Mountain Xpress (Asheveille, NC)
September 21.2012

Editor’s note: Five years after Xpress broke the news of severe contamination at the former CTS plant in south Asheville (see "Fail- Safe?" July 11, 2007, Xpress) the story is far from over. The property was officially designated a Superfund site this year, and tests last month showed high levels of toxic chemicals still leaching from it.

A locked fence surrounds the little wetland on the Rice family’s property on Mills Gap Road; signs warn the curious away. To date, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has spent millions of dollars on the problem, billing the company for the costs of testing, emergency water supplies for affected residents and a soil-vapor-extraction system intended to remove hazardous chemicals from surface soils around the former plant. But the full cleanup neighbors have demanded for years hasn’t even been designed yet, let alone begun.

And independent testing conducted last month by UNCA hydrogeologist Jeff Wilcox found trichloroethylene, a chemical degreaser used at the plant, at 11,000 parts per billion in the Rices' springs - thousands of times the 5 ppb legal limit for human contact.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mountainx.com/article/45676/Off-the-chart-UNCA-prof-tracks- CTS-mother-lode

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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