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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CTS health study: lead found in area, but low risk of contamination 
spreading

by David Forbes
Mountain XPress (NC)
January 19, 2010


The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released a 
health assessment today of the area surrounding the contaminated former 
CTS of Asheville site. The study declares that there is no elevated 
rates of cancer in a 1-mile radius, and little risk of contamination 
spreading, but also declares that new harmful substances such as lead 
have been found in the monitoring wells in the area.

The Jan. 12 study concluded that - besides those wells that had already 
tested positive for high amounts of tricholoroethylene, a suspected 
carcinogen - the chemicals identified in well water, soil and surface 
water samples "are not expected to harm people's health," though 
department officials recommend further testing of private wells and, if 
those wells are contaminated, connecting their users to municipal water.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mountainx.com/news/2010/cts_health_assessment_released_declares_no_increased_cancer_little_risk_of_

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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
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