[CPEO-BIF] CTS defends Asheville cleanup plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CTS: Plan meets cleanup goal

by Tonya Maxwell
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
September 12, 2015


ASHEVILLE - The company responsible for a local Superfund site has no plans to expand the scope of a cleanup expected to begin next year, despite a recent recommendation by federal environmental officials who determined more needs to be done to address the source of the contamination.

CTS, which shuttered its South Asheville plant decades ago, in July submitted a plan to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean up about one acre of the former manufacturing site of Mills Gap Road. EPA officials responded that while they were satisfied with the cleanup method the company had chosen, they wanted CTS also to treat underground chemicals north of that area.

On Thursday in a response to the EPA, CTS said its plan meets the required cleanup goals in this phase and the company would not broaden the plan, according to a report prepared by the company’s local contractor, Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure Inc.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2015/09/12/cts-plan-meets-cleanup-goal/72157650/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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