[CPEO-BIF] Public Works Compound, Brooksville, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents challenge cleanup

By Barbara Behrendt
St. Petersburg Times (FL)
September 6, 2009

BROOKSVILLE — Alleging incomplete testing, improper removal of tainted 
soils, deceptive reporting and secret deals, a half dozen residents of 
the Mitchell Heights neighborhood have challenged the final approval of 
the contamination assessment at the old public works compound in south 
Brooksville.

The residents are seeking a hearing before an administrative law judge. 
If that hearing is granted, it could set the county back more than a 
year in the process of getting a remediation plan approved by the state 
and implemented.

For a project that has already languished for 20 years since the county 
was first notified of the contamination, another delay is not what 
public works director Charles Mixson wants to see.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/residents-challenge-hernandos-handling-of-cleanup-at-public-works-compound/1034209

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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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