[CPEO-BIF] EPA Inspector General issues report on CTS site, Asheville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report: EPA did too little to warn residents near CTS

by Tonya Maxwell
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
August 31, 2016

ASHEVILLE – Failures in oversight by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency might have left residents near the CTS of Asheville Superfund site with prolonged exposure to a cancer-causing chemical, a federal report released Wednesday found.

The 53-page document validates concerns raised by residents who live nearest to the CTS site at 235 Mills Gap Road, said Jeff Wilcox, an environmental studies professor at UNC Asheville and a longtime friend of the Rice family.

Dot Rice and her son Terry Rice live in separate homes near the site and, for a day in autumn 2014, prevented CTS contractors from entering their property to begin cleanup work on springs in their yard, which carry the chemical trichloroethylene, better known as TCE, to the surface.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2016/08/31/report-epa-did-too-little-warn-residents-near-cts/89645026/

For the full report, go to
https://www.epa.gov/office-inspector-general/report-progress-made-improvements-needed-cts-asheville-superfund-site-north


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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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