Why is EPA so concerned with protecting CTS? (NC)
Today's Asheville Citizen-Times (NC) reports on the recent discovery of TCE contamination in residential wells and quotes EPA defending CTS:
The topography and geology of the area where the contaminated wells were found suggest that the contamination may not be related to the CTS site, said David Dorian, on-scene coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency.Why is EPA going out of its way to defend CTS here? What is their motivation?
“I don’t think that at this point in time there is adequate data to say anything definite about the source,” Dorian said. “We shouldn’t immediately jump to the conclusion that this is linked to CTS. Further investigation is warranted.”
The N.C. Division of Environment and Natural Resources plans to conduct more soil sampling near the contaminated wells to determine the contamination source, said Harry Zinn, an environmental engineer with the state’s superfund division.
“It’s not totally outside the realm of possibility that there is another source in the vicinity,” he said.
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