[CPEO-BIF] "Vapor levels near CTS safe, residents may return, " Asheville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA: Vapor levels near CTS safe, residents may return


by Tonya Maxwell
Asheville Citizen-Times.(NC)
November 18, 2014

ASHEVILLE - Families who agreed to leave their South Asheville homes  
in June after high levels of a toxic chemical was detected were given  
the go-ahead to return Monday, Environmental Protection Agency  
officials said in a statement.

The 13 people live in a house and two mobile homes adjacent to the  
CTS of Asheville Inc. Superfund site, and were notified over the  
summer they were breathing dangerous vapor levels of  
trichloroethylene, known as TCE. The EPA placed residents in  
temporary housing.

The vapors were collecting and rising from a sunken wetland area, fed  
by springs from the CTS site, which sits on higher ground just west  
of the homes. White pipes now crisscross the wetland, the most  
visible part of vapor-cleaning system installed by CTS contractors.  
Air collected in the pipes runs through a trailer with a vacuum pump,  
designed to scrub the toxic vapor away.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2014/11/18/epa-vapor- 
levels-near-cts-safe-residents-may-return/19210397/

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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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