2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 23:08:28 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Texfi site groundwater contamination, Fayetteville, North Carolina
 
Contaminated groundwater from old Texfi site still threat to PWC water supply

By Andrew Barksdale
Fayetteville Observer (NC)
November 7, 2011

Beneath an enormous storage tank, where almost 200,000 Fayetteville area residents get their drinking water, lies an elusive plume of groundwater contamination.

State officials have known about the contamination, which comes from an abandoned textile mill next to the city's water treatment plant, since the mid-1990s.

The plume contains a toxic soup of industrial solvents - called tetrachlorothylene, or PCE - that can increase the risk of cancer and liver problems if ingested over many years.

The state estimates it would cost more than $50 million to clean up the former Texfi Industries site, but there isn't enough money available to even properly monitor the contamination.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2011/11/05/1131202?sac=Local

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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