[CPEO-BIF] Former APF Industries plant, Bay Pines, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Another Raytheon? Bay Pines residents just learning of old pollution

By MARK  DOUGLAS
News Channel 8 (Tampa Bay, FL)
October 8, 2009


State records show environmental agencies had enough information 13 
years ago to "clearly indicate" industrial pollution posed a public 
health threat in the Bay Pines area of Pinellas County.

Eleven years ago, a top lawyer for the Florida Department of 
Environmental Protection called the problem "an extremely hazardous 
environmental situation" in a letter addressed to the polluted site's owner.

But 300 people who live in Bay Pines Estates near the contaminated site 
didn't get their first clue about the danger until two weeks ago.

That's when teams of workers from the Pinellas County Health Department 
started delivering door hangers to a neighborhood west of 4800 95th St. 
N, the site of the former APF Industries plant. They were seeking 
permission to test private irrigation wells.

....

For the entire story, see
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/08/another-raytheon-residents-just-learning-old-conta/

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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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