[CPEO-BIF] EPA's Inspector General reports on CTS Asheville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

EPA report finds testing deficiencies at CTS site

By Nanci Bompey and Jonathan Walczak
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
May 20, 2010


SKYLAND Water and air quality sampling by the Environmental Protection 
Agency at the former CTS of Asheville site was conducted incorrectly 
until 2007, according to a report released Wednesday.

The report, prepared by the EPA's Office of Inspector General, found 
that "the limited scope of Region 4's past sampling activities and 
oversight kept the region from detecting groundwater contamination in 
drinking water wells."

But the region did adhere to accepted standards from 2007 to 2009, 
according to the report.

In July 1999, the chemical tricholoroethylene, or TCE, was found in the 
drinking water well near the site. TCE is an industrial chemical and 
suspected carcinogen. The CTS plant manufactured switches and resistors 
for more than 20 years before closing in 1986.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20100520/NEWS/305200025

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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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