[CPEO-BIF] Tin recycling plant, Brandon, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

$8 million clean-up planned for polluted Brandon site

By YVETTE C. HAMMETT
The Tampa Tribune (FL)
August 7, 2009

The owners of a heavily polluted 12-acre industrial site off U.S. 301 
have agreed to pay for soil and water cleanup there.

The former tin recycling plant used a process where chemicals removed 
tin coatings from cans. The wash water from that process - a slurry of 
dangerous chemicals – was then dumped into a drainage ditch, sending 
pollution into the groundwater and surrounding soil.

MRC Holdings Inc. has agreed to pay some $8 million to clean up the 
pollution at the site, at 9220 Stannum St., near the intersection of 
U.S. 301. The company purchased the property from MRI in 2002.

The site was used a de-tinning plant between 1979 and 1986.

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For the entire article, see
http://brandonnews2.tbo.com/content/2009/aug/03/8-million-clean--planned-polluted-brandon-site/

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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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