[CPEO-BIF] Groundwater testing at CTS Asheville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic plume revealed at Asheville CTS site
An Asheville group pushing for the cleanup said EPA shouldn’t wait  
until its studies are finished before taking steps to get rid of the  
toxic mess.

by Clarke Morrison
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
May 14, 2014


ASHEVILLE – The first phase of testing performed in preparation for a  
Superfund cleanup revealed a plume of the toxic industrial solvent  
trichloroethylene mixed with petroleum floating on groundwater under  
the former CTS plant site.

The new information will be useful as the U.S. Environmental  
Protection Agency determines the best methods to remove the  
contamination, said Samantha Urquhart-Foster, remedial project  
manager with the agency.

It was already known that there is massive groundwater contamination  
from trichloroethylene, or TCE, a chemical used by CTS for nearly  
three decades in the manufacturing process before the plant shut down  
in 1986.

“The sampling we did shows us how deep and wide the most concentrated  
contamination is so that we can develop a cleanup plan for it,”  
Urquhart-Foster said. “We expected to see the plume there. We didn’t  
expect to see the TCE and the petroleum intermixed.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2014/05/14/testing- 
reveals-contamination-plume-asheville-cts-site/9096657/

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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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