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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A more detailed article ...

The Green Scene: Feds ineffective on Mills Gap Road contamination
Report blasts EPA's response to CTS

by David Forbes
Mountain Express (NC)
May 26, 2010

The Environmental Protection Agency failed to find contamination 
promptly, adequately address its cleanup or communicate effectively with 
residents affected by air and water contamination from a former 
industrial plant near Asheville, according to a stinging report released 
last week by an independent office of the EPA.

The May 19 report asserts that although testing standards were followed 
in assessing contamination at the former CTS of Asheville site, limited 
oversight along with poor record-keeping and communication harmed the 
cleanup effort and failed to communicate the hazards to the public.

The former electroplating plant on Mills Gap Road in southern Buncombe 
County shut down in the mid-1980s. However, beginning in 1999, neighbors 
discovered that trichloroethylene, a suspected carcinogen, was 
contaminating groundwater in the area. In the years since and recently, 
tests have found that wells and a nearby stream have many times the 
legal limits of TCE and other chemicals.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mountainx.com/features/2010/052610the_green_scene

To download the report summary, go to 
http://www.epa.gov/oig/reports/2010/20100517-10-P-0130_glance.pdf

To download the full report, go to
http://www.epa.gov/oig/reports/2010/20100517-10-P-0130.pdf


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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