[CPEO-BIF] "CTS clean-up moves forward as community wrestles with, " Asheville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CTS clean-up moves forward as community wrestles with

by Max Hunt
Mountain Xpress (NC)
December 1, 2017

ASHEVILLE, NC - Cleanup efforts are finally beginning at the CTS of Asheville Superfund site on Mills Gap Road, but past controversies and a lack of trust in Environmental Protection Agency officials continued to dominate the discussion during a Nov. 30 public meeting to review the impending remedial projects and address residents’ concerns.

The crowd at the Skyland Fire Department comprised an array of U.S. EPA staffers, county representatives, an official from the CTS Corporation, a documentary film crew, members of two community advisory groups and residents concerned about the potential impacts of the cleanup strategies.

While EPA officials tried to strike an optimistic tone about the potential remedial effects of the proposed electrical resistance heating and in-situ chemical oxidation systems that will be used on the site in coming years, many attendees continued to express ambivalence about a lack of action since contamination was discovered at the site decades ago.


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For the entire article, see
https://mountainx.com/news/cts-clean-up-moves-forward-as-community-wrestles-with-torrid-past/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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