[CPEO-BIF] Busted barrels at CTS Asheville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Do busted barrels reveal a source of CTS contamination?

by David Forbes
Mountain Express (NC)
September 22, 2010

Today, 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

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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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