[CPEO-BIF] Raytheon St. Petersburg (FL) plan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Raytheon estimates 78 years for pollution cleanup

By MARK  DOUGLAS
News Channel 8/Tampa Bay Online (FL)
March 1, 2010

Homeowners surrounding the now-shuttered Raytheon defense plant may not 
live long enough to see their neighborhood rid of the industrial 
pollution that's been creeping under parks, playgrounds and homes for 
decades.

In a new report, Raytheon's environmental consultant Arcadis says it 
will take as long as 78 years to cleanup the last of an underground mess 
that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection has known about 
since 1991.

Neighbors were already angry when the company said last year it would 
take more than 25 years to clean up the toxic waste plume that has 
polluted dozes of irrigation wells in their neighborhood.


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for the entire article, see
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/mar/01/raytheon-estimates-78-years-pollution-cleanup/news-metro/

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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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