[CPEO-BIF] CSX Rail Yard, Jacksonville, FL

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CSX says contamination near old rail yard poses no risks

By Mark Basch
Florida Times-Union
September 1, 2009


CSX Transportation says there is no danger to residents, but it is 
letting one Westside neighborhood know that it has found some 
contaminants in ground water near an old rail yard site.

The rail yard south of Beaver Street between McDuff Avenue and Edgewood 
Avenue ceased operations in 1985. But Jacksonville-based CSX still owns 
the property and has a dispatch center and other operations adjacent to 
the site. The company has been monitoring ground water there since then 
and discovered last year that contamination had spread to new areas. 
Recently, it found contaminants in water 20 feet below the surface in a 
neighborhood just south of the rail yard site.

CSX said the contaminants include solvents that were used as de-greasers 
and cleaners and also some petroleum products.

CSX said the affected residents, which are largely on Warrington Street, 
are on city water hookups and should not be affected by the contamination.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.jacksonville.com/business/2009-08-31/story/csx_says_contamination_near_old_rail_yard_poses_no_risks

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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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