At its May 5 meeting, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners reviewed its tight budget — with $5.9 million in proposed cuts — and also asked its lawyers to draft a letter to Gov. Bev Perdue calling for action on cleaning up the contaminated CTS of Asheville site.
Two grade-school boys playing in Becky Robinson‘s yard on April 24 discovered that an old well on the property was leaking. It hadn’t been used since 1999, when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency confirmed that it was contaminated by trichloroethylene, one of many chemicals used at the former CTS electroplating plant on Mills Gap Road […]
Sheriff’s Office reports increased calls for service, decreased response time County still working on reinstating zoning Tensions ran high at the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners’ April 21 meeting. Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources were there to talk about ongoing efforts to clean up […]
Not enough, say residents frustrated by a proposed agreement with CTS Corp. for cleaning up contamination at its former Mills Gap Road manufacturing site. A 1987 North Carolina law caps participating companies’ liability in such cleanups at that amount. Contained? Fences don’t prevent toxic vapors—produced by the suspected carcinogen trichloroethylene—from reaching residents living near the […]
Local activists who are calling for a swift and full cleanup of the area have produced a map showing over 70 cases of cancer or illness around the contaminated CTS of Asheville site.
It was a tense (and long) meeting for the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners last night, as residents and activists turned out in force at a presentation by state and federal officials on the cleanup of the contaminated CTS of Asheville site, which they blasted as negligent.
The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources have proposed a voluntary company cleanup deal on the contaminated former CTS of Asheville site. Local activists have attacked the move, saying it will delay any action and ultimately leave taxpayers paying for the cleanup. Toxic: The former CTS of Asheville site is heavily contaminated. CTS and […]
CTS of Asheville shut down more than two decades ago, but for some former employees and neighbors of the electroplating facility, the memories haven’t faded. Under the surface: The shell of the former CTS of Asheville plant on Mills Gap Road, which is considered a hazardous-waste site due to trichloroethylene concentrations in ground water. contemporary […]
