[CPEO-BIF] Texfi site groundwater contamination, Fayetteville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

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
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

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