[CPEO-BIF] "Bayou Woods meadow could become brownfield area, " Fort Walton Beach, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bayou Woods meadow could become brownfield area

By KARI BARLOW 
Northwest Fllorida Daily News
February 14, 2013 

FORT WALTON BEACH - The City Council has designated the former dump at the corner of Bayou Woods Drive and Sotir Street has been designated a brownfield area.

The city owns the vacant 6.8-acre meadow, which has been unused since the late 1960s. It started out as a borrow pit to provide dirt to widen Beal Parkway and later was used as a landfill.

The brownfield designation - which indicates the presence of hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants - will allow the city to accept a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to pay for a full environmental assessment of the site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/local/bayou-woods-meadow-could-become-brownfield-area-1.95538

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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