2010 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:48:36 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Guilford Mills TCE, Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina
 
Silence fueled their skepticism

BY TED RICHARDSON
Cary News (NC)
November 23, 2010

FUQUAY-VARINA - On a cold night four years ago, Denise Copper sterilized the inside of a Mason jar and attached a long rope. She donned a black sweatshirt and drove to the end of her street, near an open field below a fiber plant owned by Guilford Mills.

She stepped cautiously through the wet grass, toward the middle of the field, approaching a monitoring well that Guilford had dug to determine the extent of groundwater contamination below its property.

But before she could get to the well with her jar, she saw a flashlight moving toward her. She scurried back to her car with no water sample, no new information. Just a close call with a security guard.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.carynews.com/2010/11/23/23550/silence-fueled-their-skepticism.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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