[CPEO-BIF] KC Industries/Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical site, Mulberry, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

County Commissioners Vote to Designate Chemical Plant Site a  
Brownfield Area

By Tom Palmer
Lakeland Ledger (FL)
November 20, 2012

BARTOW | County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to approve  
designating as a brownfield area the KC Industries property near  
Mulberry.

The 200-acre site on Prairie Mine Road has been used as a chemical  
plant since 1957. The contamination is the result of practices that  
occurred before 1972 when Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical, the plant's  
former owner, began disposing of the plant's acidic waste in a deep  
injection well instead of surface ponds, said Paul Maasen, the  
plant's current owner.

Maasen, who managed the plant for Kaiser, said he acquired the plant  
in 2000 and has been working with a succession of companies to get  
the site cleaned up.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theledger.com/article/20121120/POLITICS/121129906

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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
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