[CPEO-BIF] "EPA to sample air for toxic chemicals near CTS site, " Asheville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA to sample air for toxic chemicals near CTS site

by Clarke Morrison
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
June 21, 2014

ASHEVILLE – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to sample  
the air at six homes this week to determine if they have unsafe  
levels of toxic fumes from contamination at the former CTS plant.

The move comes after the voluntary evacuation earlier this month of  
13 people that the agency said could be at risk from vapors of the  
industrial solvent trichloroethylene near the Superfund site.

Air samples will be collected Tuesday and Wednesday inside and  
outside homes just east of the plant and at springs that are heavily  
contaminated with TCE, said Samantha Urquhart-Foster, remedial  
project manager with EPA.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2014/06/21/epa-sample- 
air-toxic-chemicals-near-cts-site/11226271/

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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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