[CPEO-BIF] School on Sanford, Florida farmland

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[As in California, not all "brownfields" planned for schools in Florida 
suffer from "industrial" contamination. - LS]

Arsenic-tainted land OK'd
Seminole to put schools in Midway neighborhood

Dave Weber
Orlando Sentinel (FL)
January 20, 2007

SANFORD -- State environmental officials have given the go-ahead for two 
schools to be built on arsenic-tainted farmland east of Sanford, but 
they won't guarantee that the site is safe for children.

They say removal of contaminated soil found through spot tests of the 
property in the planned Cameron Heights subdivision off State Road 46, 
plus a prohibition on use of groundwater on half of the land, should 
provide adequate safeguards.

"But if you want 100 percent assurance, no," said Tom Lubozynski, an 
administrator with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in 
Orlando.

Lubozynski said it would be too costly and impractical to thoroughly 
test for arsenic or other pesticides used on so large a piece of land 
for the 100 years when celery, cabbage and other crops were grown.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/education/orl-midway2007jan20,0,3095262.story?coll=orl-news-education-headlines

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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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