From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:10:18 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Busted barrels at CTS Asheville, North Carolina |
Do busted barrels reveal a source of CTS contamination? by David Forbes Mountain Express (NC) September 22, 2010Today, a resident of the Mills Gap Road area showed Xpress reporters busted barrels at the border of the contaminated former CTS of Asheville site, which he asserts may point to chemical dumping responsible for groundwater contamination in the area. "You can see here there's concrete, along with old pieces of their building, when they expanded the back end of their building, they brought the pieces back here," Mills Gap Road resident Tate McQueen said, pointing to the concrete, dirt and remains of green barrels wedged up against a fence adjoining the property of the Rice family, the first, in 1999, to see high levels of trichloroethylene contamination, a suspected carcinogen. "CTS stated their property was clean [when the plant was shut down in 1984] and this absolutely defies what they've said." About 60 feet downhill from the barrels is the home of Larry Rice, Jr. Some 2003 reports from the EPA referenced "green polyethyelne drums" but didn't specify their location. ... For the entire article, see http://www.mountainx.com/news/2010/Do_busted_barrels_reveal_a_source_of_CTS -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org |
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