[CPEO-BIF] Tentative Tallevast (FL) settlement with Lockheed

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Residents, Lockheed Martin on brink of settling contamination case

BY RONNIE GREENE
Miami Herald (FL)
September 14, 2010

For years, the residents of tiny Tallevast, Fla., have waged a fight for 
survival after discovery that a 200-acre pollution plume seeped into 
their groundwater from a shuttered beryllium plant. And they have turned 
to Lockheed Martin for justice.

This month, a decade after the leak of cancer-causing chemicals was 
discovered, the historic black hamlet and Fortune 500 company agreed, in 
principle, to settle a property contamination lawsuit on the eve of trial.

That legal battle, brought by 270 residents against companies that owned 
or operated the plant, said the homeowners' health and property were 
imperiled by the failure to tell them of contamination from beryllium 
and other toxins. The main hazard in the underground plume is TCE, a 
cancer-causing agent used to degrease plant parts.

The suit, slated for Manatee County Circuit Court in October, offered 
the potential to open a window into one of the nation's most emotional 
environmental divides. Instead, the settlement -- following 
court-mandated mediation -- closes this chapter in the struggle.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/14/1824178/residents-lockheed-martin-on-brink.html

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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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