[CPEO-BIF] "Tests to look for contamination spread from CTS site, " Asheville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tests to look for contamination spread from CTS site

by Tonya Maxwell
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
May 16, 2015

ASHEVILLE – CTS Corp. will expand testing near its long-closed manufacturing plant, agreeing to a federal government request that raises concern over whether underground contamination from the Superfund site might be more widespread than once thought.

Representatives with the Indiana-based company in a March meeting with the Environmental Protection Agency said CTS would conduct more testing on the western edge of an underground contamination plume covering 119 acres.

That plume - about the size of 90 football fields - pushes into the backyards of some homes in Southside Village, a gated community near the former plant off Mills Gap Road.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2015/05/16/tests-look-contamination-spread-cts-site/27451743/

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