[CPEO-BIF] Buncombe County Schools Property, Asheville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

In January 2012, as the Buncombe County, North Carolina Board of  
Education considered adding a $4 million high school to its  
administrative office building, Board Member Lisa Baldwin discovered  
that the school property was on the edge of the Square D hazardous  
waste site. In March the North Carolina Department of Environment and  
Natural Resources (DENR) asked Square D to conduct additional testing  
on the site to determine the potential for vapor intrusion. Thus far,  
groundwater and soil gas sampling have not demonstrated a risk to  
building occupants, but much more testing is necessary to ensure that  
vapor intrusion is not and will not be a problem.



To download the 5-page, 1.4 MB PDF, go to http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/ 
BuncombeSchools.pdf.


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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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