[CPEO-BIF] "CTS neighbors see little done despite millions spent, " Asheville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CTS neighbors see little done despite millions spent

by Clarke Morrison
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
May 5, 2014

ASHEVILLE – With at least $11 million in government funding spent so  
far on the CTS Superfund site, neighbors like Lori Murphy see little  
to show for it.

It’s been nearly 15 years since toxic industrial chemicals were  
discovered oozing up into springs next door to the former  
manufacturing facility on Mills Gap Road, which now is a vacant lot  
surrounded by a fence and visible from the road.

Since then federal, state and local agencies have been involved in  
efforts including well and soil testing, installing house filtration  
systems and running municipal waterlines.

But it was just two years ago that the site was added to the  
Superfund National Priorities List, and officials say a major cleanup  
of the contamination won’t begin until at least 2016.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2014/05/05/cts- 
neighbors-see-little-done-despite-millions-spent/8743351/

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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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