[CPEO-BIF] Hickory Hills, Brooksville, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Can project be green and clean?

Environmental questions, mainly on water, pesticides and fertilizer, are 
building for the Hickory Hills development.

By DAN DEWITT
St. Petersburg Times (FL)
April 15, 2007

Editor's note: This is the second of three reports on the proposed 
Hickory Hill subdivision that the Hernando Times will publish before 
plans for the project come before the Hernando County Commission on 
April 26.



BROOKSVILLE - Of all the environmental questions about the planned 
Hickory Hill development, the ones dealing with water use and pollution 
are getting the most attention:

- Is the soil beneath the 2,800-acre property mostly clay, which shields 
the aquifer from contamination, or is it sand, which allows chemicals to 
seep downward?

- Will ponds on Hickory Hill's golf courses promote water recycling or 
become holding zones for high concentrations of pesticides and fertilizers?

- Can state and county agencies ensure that Sierra Properties LLC sticks 
to its plans to limit spraying chemicals on the development's 1,750 
lawns and three full-length golf courses and nine practice holes?

- How much of the 2-million gallons of water used to irrigate the 
courses and yards will come from the aquifer and how much will be 
recycled wastewater?


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For the entire article, see
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/04/15/Hernando/Can_project_be_green_.shtml

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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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