From the Asheville Citizen-Times:
Larry Rice Jr.’s two young sons enjoy playing in the woods around the family’s home, but he’s been reluctant to let them outside since learning about the potential danger in the air.
Testing performed Tuesday is designed to determine if Rice’s home and six other households near the former CTS plant on Mills Gap Road have unsafe levels of the toxic industrial solvent trichloroethylene.
Rice and his wife, Layka, have boys 7 and 8 that have lived their whole lives there.
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