[CPEO-BIF] "EPA eyes new parties" at Asheville, North Carolina site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA eyes new parties at Superfund site

by Tonya Maxwell
Asheville Citizen-Times
May 16, 2016


One of the world’s largest defense contractors and an area development group could be held responsible for cleanup costs at an area Superfund site after environmental regulators identified those companies as potentially responsible for contamination at the South Asheville site.

Those groups could potentially share costs with CTS Corp., an Indiana-based company, in scrubbing the manufacturing chemical trichloroethylene, better known as TCE, from the CTS of Asheville site along Mills Gap Road.

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency sent letters to defense contractor Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation and Mills Gap Road Associates as well as CTS, identifying them as potentially responsible for contamination that has plagued the area for decades.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2016/05/16/epa-eyes-new-parties-superfund-site/84458196/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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