[CPEO-BIF] High TCE levels at CTS Asheville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Highest Levels of TCE Found

by Mike Mason
WLOS TV-13 news (Asheville, NC)
May 28, 2014
People who live near the contaminated CTS Superfund site are  
frustrated after the EPA’s most recent report shows the highest  
levels of TCE ever.

Jeff Wilcox, PhD is a geology professor at UNC Asheville and has been  
tracking the CTS contamination for the past 6 years. Wilcox has been  
serving as a voluntary liaison between concerned residents and EPA’s  
Region 4 office which is based in Atlanta and manages the CTS  
Superfund site. The new report shows the known carcinogen  
trichloroethylene, better known as ‘TCE’, is migrating away from the  
site and is headed in 3 different directions. But that's nothing new,  
according to Wilcox, who says; "In 2009, a Mactec report shows that  
groundwater is flowing towards Southside Village and towards the  
Rice’s springs."

Last Friday, the EPA sent resident Dot Rice the final 1301 page  
report which shows TCE levels remain high on her property and the  
highest levels ever found were recently discovered at the CTS site.  
Near the bedrock, some 50 feet below the surface, the EPA found TCE  
levels of 1,120,000 parts per billion. TCE in the groundwater was  
recorded at 86,100 parts per billion. The state limit for TCE in  
water is 3 parts per billion, which means the groundwater is now  
28,700 times more toxic than the state allows.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.wlos.com/shared/news/features/top-stories/stories/ 
wlos_highest-levels-tce-found-16420.shtml

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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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