AC-T: EPA moves residents from CTS super fund site

From the Asheville Citizen-Times

By John Boyle

 

After getting back test results on pollution in air vapor near the CTS site, the EPA is recommending 13 people nearby move from their homes.

 

Evironmental Protection Agency officials visited the home of Terry Rice on Friday evening, telling him test results show unsafe levels of the pollutant TCE in and around his home, and in two nearby trailers Rice rents out.

 

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