[CPEO-BIF] APF Lawsuit, Bay Pines, FL

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Suit filed over pollution from Bay Pines defense plant

By MARK  DOUGLAS
News Channel 8/Tampa Tribune (FL)
October 23, 2009

In seven years of environmental detective work for the Pinellas County 
Sheriff's Office, Bob Ankenbauer never saw anything as alarming as the 
abandoned chemical lab littered with open jars of acid and cyanide.

"I was worried about spillage from kids playing there. I was worried 
about them forming clouds in the building, worried about the building 
itself because these acids could eat through the steel," Ankenbauer said.

He would soon learn that the work done at the complex included applying 
the most destructive of chemicals to airplane materials to see if they'd 
hold up.

Seventeen years later, attorney Joseph Saunders has filed a class action 
lawsuit on behalf of neighbors because acids, poisons and toxic 
chemicals from that complex have contaminated groundwater and may have 
migrated to surrounding homes.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/23/suit-filed-over-pollution-bay-pines-defense-plant/news-breaking/

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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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