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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Concrete turned to mush at plant threatening Bay Pines

By MARK  DOUGLAS
News Channel 8 (Tampa Bay, FL)
October 9, 2009

An accident waiting to happen. A hazard to the public.

Those are the words Becky Sharp used when she called Pinellas sheriff's 
deputies to report what she had found at an old industrial plant: Open 
containers of acids, cyanide and other poisons so powerful they turned 
concrete to mush and burned her feet.

Sharp, a private environmental inspector, feared the chemicals would 
catch fire or explode.

The date was Feb. 3, 1992.

Seventeen years later, people living nearby in Bay Pines Estates are 
hearing about it for the first time. They're learning that the fallout 
from that neglect may threaten them today.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/08/081923/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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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