[CPEO-BIF] CTS [Asheville, North Carolina] given 30 days to submit cleanup plans

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CTS given 30 days to submit cleanup plans

by John Boyle,
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
July 14, 2014

ARDEN - CTS Corp. has until Aug. 11 to submit plans to the U.S.  
Environmental Protection Agency for cleaning up polluted springs and  
a plume of tainted groundwater beneath a former plant site.

The 30-day deadline sent to CTS by the EPA on July 10 follows the  
agency’s voluntary evacuation of 13 people living near the old plant  
site on Mills Gap Road because of unsafe pollutant levels in air  
vapor. The primary culprit was polluted springs downhill from the  
vacant CTS site.

"It was precipitated by the people having to be temporarily  
relocated," said Samantha Urquhart-Foster, the EPA’s remedial project  
manager for the site. "We want to get them back in their homes if we  
can. Our primary focus is bringing down the air concentrations at the  
springs so they can get back home."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2014/07/14/cts-given- 
days-submit-cleanup-plans/12651663/

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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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