2010 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:07:34 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Raytheon St. Petersburg (FL) plan
 
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
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