[CPEO-BIF] Orphan aerospace site in Orlando, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Orlando, the 'City Beautiful,' weighs paying to clean up toxic mess

Kevin Spear and Mark Schlueb
Orlando Sentinel (FL)
October 4, 2008

Orlando leaders are considering whether to come up with nearly $13 
million to clean up a toxic mess near downtown that the city didn't 
cause and doesn't have to pay for.

One big motivation behind the deal: "The City Beautiful" does not want 
the federal government to declare one of its core neighborhoods a 
Superfund site. If that happened, Mayor Buddy Dyer said, property values 
could plummet.

The city will consider a proposal Monday to purge an industrial chemical 
contaminating 40 acres near Lake Highland Preparatory School. The plan 
also includes selling some of the land to the private school for sports 
uses.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-asectce04100408oct04,0,74397.story


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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