[CPEO-BIF] "CTS Superfund cleanup approved, with concerns, " Asheville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CTS Superfund cleanup approved, with concerns

by Tonya Maxwell
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
September 30, 2015


A cleanup plan for underground chemicals at the CTS Asheville Superfund site has been approved, though it fails to address a source of a carcinogenic liquid that has permeated the area, according to environmental officials who oversee the site.

CTS had put forward a plan that would address a one-acre portion of chemicals - mostly old fuel mixed with trichloroethylene, also known as TCE  - on its former manufacturing site on Mills Gap Road, but the Illinois-based company and the Environmental Protection Agency have been wrangling over the source of TCE.

The EPA has told the company repeatedly that TCE, a cancer-causing agent, is infiltrating groundwater from an underground source to the north of and contiguous to the one-acre area where CTS is focusing its efforts.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2015/09/30/cts-superfund-cleanup-approved-epa-concerns/73073686/

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