After 20 years North Carolina Residents Want Contaminated Site to be Cleaned Up

October 14, 2007 - Federal and state efforts to clean up the contaminated CTS site can so far best be characterized as too little, too late. More than 17 years after tests revealed an industrial solvent linked to health risks, efforts to clean up the contaminated soil and water have barely begun.

Neighbors, some of whom were drinking from contaminated springs and a contaminated well until 1999, are justifiably frustrated and angry.

Though neighbors have since been placed on the city water system, the possible movement of contaminated groundwater away from the site and the prospect of unhealthy indoor air in homes above contaminated groundwater may still pose a threat.

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