[CPEO-BIF] Lake Highland Preparatory School, Orlando, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pollution cleanup in pipeline
Orlando, prep school dealing on land

Kevin Spear and Mark Schlueb
Orlando Sentinel (FL)
January 18, 2007

After years of delay, cleanup plans for a huge toxic mess in Orlando 
could finally be taking shape.

The private Lake Highland Preparatory School wants to buy nearby city 
land that sprawls across the heart of the chemical stew, get rid of the 
poisons and sell off some of the parcel for profit.

School and Orlando authorities negotiated privately Wednesday, with both 
sides still stymied over the value of roughly 25 acres owned by the city 
and the Orlando Utilities Commission.

Whether the figure is a penny or millions of dollars is clouded by 
potential liability and uncertainty about the severity of contamination. 
Costs to remove the chemical, a potent industrial solvent called 
trichloroethene, or TCE, could reach $10 million or more.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-tce1807jan18,0,4461123.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-orange

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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