[CPEO-BIF] Liberty Cleaners site, Norfolk, Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Norfolk housing agency to pay $9,000 in fines

By Scott Harper
The Virginian-Pilot
March 10, 2011
NORFOLK - The Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority has agreed  
to pay more than $9,000 in state fines to settle hazardous-waste  
violations at an old dry cleaners that it bought two years ago.

Liberty Cleaners, a fixture in the Berkley section of Norfolk for  
more than 50 years, was abandoned after it closed in 1999 and  
following the death of its longtime owner, Thomas James Sr.

Left unattended for years in the concrete building at 620 E. Liberty  
Street were dozens of drums containing toxic chemicals used in the  
dry-cleaning industry, including one known as "perc," which can cause  
cancer.

...

For the entire article, see
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/03/norfolk-housing-agency-pay-9000-fines


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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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