2017 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:10:32 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Wake Forest, North Carolina VOCs
 
EPA spent $3.7 million to clean up Wake Forest contamination; those responsible pay just $500

By Lisa Sorg
Progressive Pulse (NC)
June 26, 2017

It’s been more than 10 years since 20 households in a Wake Forest subdivision learned their drinking water wells were contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals, TCE and PCE — some at 20 times the maximum contaminant level.

Since then, the Environmental Protection Agency, in concert with state environmental officials, has spent $3.7 million to provide bottled water to affected homes in the Stony Hill Road development, to connect some residences to Aqua NC’s community well system and to install whole-house carbon filtration systems in other houses.

Yet Donald and Catherine Albright, the settling parties who are allegedly responsible for the contamination, will pay just $500 for “past and future response actions,” according to an EPA proposed settlement agreement.

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For the entire article, see
http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2017/06/26/epa-spent-3-7-million-clean-wake-forest-contamination-responsible-pay-just-500/#sthash.V6XWrWBY.dpbs

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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