[CPEO-BIF] Koppers site, Gainesville, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contaminated soil could cause long-term health effects

By Megan Rolland
Gainesville Sun (FL)
May 17, 2009

Residents near the Koppers Inc. wood treatment facility on Northwest 
23rd Avenue who received notice Friday that soil near their homes was 
contaminated above permissible residential standards expressed concern 
Sunday afternoon about long-term health affects.

Erin Browning-Paine lives in a house adjacent to the buffer between 
Koppers and the residential neighborhood.

A soil sample taken from just west of her property line recorded the 
highest level of dioxins — 1,301 parts per trillion — of any of the samples.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090517/ARTICLES/905179925/1109/SPORTS?Title=Contaminated-soil-could-cause-long-term-health-effects

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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>
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