[CPEO-BIF] CTS Asheville (North Carolina) petition

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Buncombe residents petition Gov. Purdue, DENR officials for CTS cleanup

by Margaret Williams
Mountain Xpress (NC)
May 19, 2009

Demanding a "full, proper and time-critical cleanup" of the CTS site in 
south Asheville, local residents have collected about 3,100 petition 
signatures, recently delivered in a 5-pound package to North Carolina 
Gov. Beverly Purdue and the state's Division of Waste Management.

The immediate issue involves a proposed voluntary-cleanup agreement 
between the state and CTS, which once operated an electroplating plant 
on Mills Gap Road. The agreement sets a $3 million cap on the company's 
cleanup of trichloroethylene and other toxins found at the site and in 
local groundwater supplies. Residents argue that a 2002 order from the 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency overrides any such agreement 
because the site was declared an imminent hazard, still poses a health 
threat, and has seen little in the way of substantive cleanup. The 
petition declares: "We, the undersigned, demand immediate action from 
the U.S. EPA on the preceding Formal Order of Enforcement of 2002. 
Enforcement of this Federal Order precedes and supersedes any state or 
county agreement with CTS. There should be no cleanup cost limitation 
awarded, at any future tax-payer expense, to the parties responsible for 
the contamination and the endangerment from a delayed clean-up resulting 
in both loss of health/life and property values."

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.mountainx.com/news/2009/buncombe_residents_petition_gov_purdue_denr_officials_for_cts_cleanup

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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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