[CPEO-BIF] Summit Springs, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

No remediation needed at Summit Springs


By James Shea
Hendersonville Times-News (NC)
April 13, 2009

A 140-lot development near the Green River entered into a brownfields 
agreement with the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources in 
March. Under the terms of the agreement, the state is not requiring the 
developer “to perform any active remediation at the property.”

Developers Jeff Cosgrove and Jim Armour purchased 126 acres and planned 
a residential subdivision called Summit Springs in 2006. They wanted to 
created an affordable housing development and priced the homes under 
$200,000.

A 40-acre section of the property had previously been an apple farm and 
was listed on the Inactive Hazardous Waste Site List. A test well had 
detected arsenic in the water. When the state learned about the test, it 
placed the development on the list. The developer hired an engineer and 
retested the well. It paid a $2,000 to $3,000 fee to have state 
scientists review the test and was taken off the list, determining the 
original test was a “false positive.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20090413/NEWS/904129992/1042?Title=No-remediation-needed-at-Summit-Springs

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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>
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