[CPEO-BIF] New contamination emerges near CTS Asheville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New contamination emerges in Mills Gap; neighbors await municipal  
water hookups

By Susan Andrew
Mountain Xpress (NC)
February 2, 2012

At a kitchen table in the Mills Gap Road community in south Asheville  
last night, residents who live near the former CTS of Asheville plant  
met to plan their next steps. Recently, two residential wells tested  
positive for industrial contaminants, including cyanide. It's not  
known whether this latest indication of contamination is linked to  
CTS, which operated an electroplating facility on Mills Gap Road  
until 1986.

But the findings — combined with the announcement that the Elkhardt,  
Ind.-based company has signed a new agreement with the U.S  
Environmental Protection Agency — had one resident, Lori Murphy,  
remark, "It's like letting the criminal clean up the crime scene."  
Murphy's well tested positive some time ago for trichloroethylene,  
one of the chemicals used by CTS at the old plant and one  
acknowledged to be a cancer-causing agent.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mountainx.com/article/40035/New-contamination-emerges-in- 
Mills-Gap-neighbors-await-municipal-water-hookups

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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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