From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:50:59 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] "Workers heat the ground to remove contamination at CTS site, " Skyland, North Carolina |
Call it a dirt barbecue: Workers heat the ground to remove contamination at CTS site by Mark Barrett Asheville Citizen Times (NC) July 22, 2018 SKYLAND - If the temperature here reaches 100 degrees sometime this summer, the air would still only be a little more than half as hot as the dirt below the surface on a patch of land off Mills Gap Road. At the CTS hazardous waste site, workers are using massive amounts of electricity to raise the underground temperature to 190 degrees so contaminants in the soil boil off and are vacuumed up as vapor. The work is the first time large amounts of contamination from the ground have been removed at the site, which has been the subject of neighborhood concern since at least 1999, said Jeff Wilcox, a UNC Asheville professor of environmental science. … For the entire article, see https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2018/07/22/asheville-cts-site-cleanup-heats-tainted-soil-remove-tce-fuel-oil/788523002/ -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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