[CPEO-BIF] Deed restrictions at Tallevast (FL) site

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Tallevast: Bush dismays FOCUS leaders

DONNA WRIGHT
Bradenton Herald (FL)
October 27, 2005

TALLEVAST - Gov. Jeb Bush brushed off Tallevast residents' concerns for
their health and safety, community leaders said Wednesday.

Laura Ward and Wanda Washington, officers of the advocacy group Family
Oriented Community United and Strong, sought Bush's personal
intervention in August to move residents in the community out of harm's
way. The FOCUS leaders' lengthy letter, which Bush received Aug. 24,
detailed how Tallevast residents fear their health has been compromised
and their property values damaged by an underground plume of toxic waste
stemming from an old beryllium plant.

...

Lockheed spokeswoman Gail Rymer confirmed that the defense giant has no
interest in pursuing deed restrictions on private property, but intends
to remediate the groundwater contamination through a pump and treat method.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/13006292.htm

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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
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