[CPEO-BIF] Former dump, Hollywood, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hollywood considers redeveloping former dump


BY JULIE BROWN
Miami Herald (FL)
January 4, 2011


Hollywood city commissioners are considering whether to clean up and 
redevelop a 32-acre city-owned dump site that was used four decades ago 
to dispose of incinerator waste and other trash four decades ago.

At Wednesday's regular meeting, the commission will discuss whether to 
designate the site a "brownfield" -- a label that refers to a 
contaminated piece of land on industrial sites that have the potential 
to be reused.

The land, at the corner of South Park Road and Pembroke Road, was the 
site of an incinerator that burned up to 450 tons of municipal solid 
waste per day. It operated from about 1958 to 1973. For a time, the ash 
was disposed at area landfills. But, according to the city, in 1963 a 
pit on the property was filled with trash, brush and other debris. 
Later, incinerator ash was spread on top of the trash.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/04/2000646/hollywood-considers-redeveloping.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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