[CPEO-BIF] Duracell jail site, Davidson County, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

More testing of Duracell site ordered by county

By Heather J. Smith
Lexington Dispatch (NC)
May 12, 2009

The Davidson County Board of Commissioners, at their meeting Tuesday 
night, approved a second phase of environmental testing at the former 
Duracell building on U.S. Highway 64 East, where the county is 
considering expanding the county jail.

Commissioners approved the testing by a 5-2 vote.

A jail committee, made up of county, law enforcement and judicial 
officials, recommended the Duracell site on the condition that 
additional testing finds contamination is at a safe level. The 
Environmental Protection Agency and the N.C. Department of Environment 
and Natural Resources ordered a series of cleanup efforts of the former 
battery manufacturing facility.

"My question to those on the committee," Commissioner Larry Potts said, 
"have you have gotten the same calls I did from former employees and 
those familiar with the site asking what would happen if someone who 
spent time in the jail later got cancer and decided to sue the county?"

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.the-dispatch.com/article/20090512/ARTICLES/905129979/1005/NEWS?Title=More-testing-of-Duracell-site-ordered-by-county

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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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