Public Health Assessment: CTS/Mills Gap Road Site Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. EPA Facility ID: NCSFN0406988.

摘要

The N.C. Division of Public Health (DPH) understands the communitys concerns about contact with chemicals from the CTS/Mills Gap Road (CTS) site. The N.C. DPHs top priority is to make sure the community near the site has the best science information available to safeguard its health. The DPH performed a comprehensive evaluation of available environmental analytical data associated with the CTS site. This public health assessment evaluates potential public health hazards related to exposures to contaminated groundwater, drinking water, soil, surface water, and outdoor and indoor air on and near the CTS/Mills Gap Road site near Asheville, NC (EPA site ID: NCSFN0406988). This report discusses environmental samples associated with the site collected from 1990 through August 2008. It also discusses private well samples collected through January 2008. Discussions of subsequent private well samples are provided in a separate Health Consultation. CTS and other operators manufactured electronic components on the site from 1952 until 1986 and related operations are believed to be the source of the chemical contamination. Contaminated soils and groundwater were identified on the CTS property and in surface waters leaving the property in 1991. Groundwater contamination associated with the CTS site was identified in July 1999 on a nearby property east of CTS. Also in 1999, chemical contamination (trichloroethylene (TCE)) was found in drinking water wells near the site, at which time residences in the area were connected to municipal drinking water supplies.