2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 30 Oct 2007 16:05:23 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] CTS, Asheville, North Carolina
 
CTS site must be cleaned up

By Nanci Bompey
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
October 30, 2007

SKYLAND - The federal government has told operators of a plant once used in making industrial switches to try to find a way to clean up contaminated springs nearby, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official said Monday.

CTS and current property owner Mills Gap Associates also have until Nov. 25 to limit access to contaminated springs, a concern of people living near the shuttered plant on Mills Gap Road.

...

Dorian said because the site is not listed on the National Priority List, a list of hazardous sites given priority for cleanup, the EPA can only require cleanup of surface water contamination, not groundwater contamination.

However, the agency is planning to test the gases coming off the contaminated soil to determine if vapor from the TCE is affecting public health, something not usually done at sites like the former CTS plant.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071030/NEWS01/71029076/1250

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