CTS of Asheville Contamination

[Appaholic]

Here's one from around my corner.....just a bunch of alarmists I'm sure.....

“Despite being entered into the state’s superfund program in the early ‘90s, very little cleanup has been accomplished,” wrote Hartwell Carson, RiverLink’s French Broad Riverkeeper, in a Sept. 6 letter to Rep. Heath Shuler.

http://www.mountainx.com/xpressfiles/040908ctssite

Wonder why the business didn't clean thi up when they left? Not value-added?

[dbackjon]

Now that is a type of company the government should seize, sell the assets to clean up the mess, and then build cells for the executives to live in.

[AshevilleApp]

Now that is a type of company the government should seize, sell the assets to clean up the mess, and then build cells for the executives to live in.

Refresh my memory though. Don't taxpayers now foot the bill for Superfund clean-ups?

[dbackjon]

Now that is a type of company the government should seize, sell the assets to clean up the mess, and then build cells for the executives to live in.

Refresh my memory though. Don't taxpayers now foot the bill for Superfund clean-ups?

For most of it - but if, as in this case, the company still exists, they should be liable.

[AshevilleApp]

Refresh my memory though. Don't taxpayers now foot the bill for Superfund clean-ups?

For most of it - but if, as in this case, the company still exists, they should be liable.

I agree. For some reason I thought that the EPA had changed the rules and removed the liability. I hope that's not the case.

[dbackjon]

http://epa.gov/compliance/cleanup/super ... ility.html

[AshevilleApp]

http://epa.gov/compliance/cleanup/super ... ility.html

You beat me to it. I was just over on the EPA web-site.