[CPEO-BIF] "oo long in coming, but closure to CTS saga at hand, " Buncombe County, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Our view: Too long in coming, but closure to CTS saga at hand


Editorial
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
February 16, 2016


Neighbors of CTS finally are going to get the cleanup they deserve, a quarter-century after contamination first was detected.

CTS Corp. and a predecessor performed electroplating at facility on Mills Gap Road from 1952 to 1986. Contamination was first noticed in 1990 but pretty much discounted then. It wasn’t until 1999 that neighbors became aware there was a problem when an oily mess was discovered oozing into a spring basin next to the plant.

Trichloroethylene, an industrial solvent linked to liver, kidney and nervous system problems, was found at a level of 21,000 parts per billion, which is more than 7,000 times North Carolina’s groundwater standard.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/story/opinion/editorials/2016/02/16/view-long-coming-closure-cts-saga-hand/80445202/

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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
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