[CPEO-BIF] Asheville, NC TCE contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Residents plan lawsuit over tainted water

By Nanci Bompey
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
November 28, 2007

SKYLAND - Residents near the former CTS of Asheville plant have filed a 
letter of intent to sue the former and current owners of the site on 
Mills Gap Road over contamination on the property.

According to the letter, 29 residents intend to sue former owner CTS 
Corp., current owners Mills Gap Road Associates and former developer The 
Biltmore Group.

The residents want to force the companies to clean up trichloroethylene, 
or TCE, contamination at and around the 57-acre site of the former 
industrial switch manufacturer. The industrial solvent has been found to 
pose a threat to humans and the environment, according to the letter.

...

The EPA is planning to test areas around the site for potentially 
harmful vapors coming from the contamination, and health officials are 
conducting a health assessment of the site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200771127119

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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