[CPEO-BIF] "Cleanup coming in 2016 for the CTS of Asheville [NC] site?"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup coming in 2016 for the CTS of Asheville site?

by Margaret Williams
Mountain Xpress (NC)
April 1, 2015 

When will cleanup begin at the contaminated CTS site on Mills Gap Road? 2016, says Craig Zeller, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s project manager for the Superfund site.

In March, he met with Southside Village residents, whose town-home development was built on the upper part of the original 57-acre CTS property. Zeller says he explained what’s next on the remediation (or cleanup) agenda, and he reviewed two EPA letters that detailed the level of risk for Southside residents (see “EPA Clarifies Southside Village Status“). For several decades, CTS operated an electroplating plant at Mills Gap. Extremely high concentrations of trichloroethylene and other toxins used at the plant have been found in nearby springs and groundwater and on the 9-acre property that was added to the federal Superfund list in 2012.

In maps and a detailed narrative shared with Southside residents, it appears that most of the contaminants the agency tested for are labeled “U” (for “undetectable”) in the town-home development, while very high concentrations have been documented at the old slab that marks where the plant was . Zeller clarified for Xpress that finding no “unacceptable” risk in Southside doesn’t mean there’s no risk — just that the documented contaminants were at such low levels that they weren’t considered “actionable” or a cause for concern.

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For the entire article, see
http://mountainx.com/news/cleanup-coming-in-2016-for-the-cts-of-asheville-site/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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