[CPEO-BIF] Reuse safety at Tallevast (FL) site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Employees safe, Lockheed says
Aerospace firm says owners of the former beryllium plant not at risk

BY KATHLEEN CULLINAN
Sarasota Herald Tribune (FL)
August 24, 2005


TALLEVAST -- When Lockheed Martin sold the old American Beryllium Co.
plant on Tallevast Road, the defense giant scoured the inside of the
building and hauled away tons of toxic soil.

Lockheed told Wire-Pro Inc., the company that bought the old beryllium
plant, that the site was clean and safe.

But Lockheed has since taken on a cleanup of the whole area around the
plant, east of the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport. In a report
on the factory site issued this month, the company said it found
excessive levels of at least seven toxic chemicals in the soil,
including arsenic, beryllium and lead.

Lockheed plans to get the plant property permanently zoned for
industrial and commercial use, so that homes can never be built on it.

Company officials said that since most of the tainted soil has been
paved over, it doesn't present a health risk to the 120 or so employees
who work at Wire-Pro.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050824/NEWS/508240465




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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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