[CPEO-BIF] "Former West Palm Beach [Florida] landfill would be cleaned, converted to shops"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former West Palm Beach landfill would be cleaned, converted to shops

By Eliot Kleinberg 
Palm Beach Post (FL)
March 9, 2015


WEST PALM BEACH - For eight decades, ash from municipal incinerators, and later yard trash, was dumped at an old landfill near what’s now Palm Beach International Airport.

Now, West Palm Beach City Commissioners are set to declare the site as a “brownfield” so the new owners, who expect to spend millions on the cleanup, can qualify for state and federal incentives to clean it up.

The property’s currently owned by the Hertz car rental chain.

>From the 1920s until the 1960s, the landfill was used for ash. When that stopped, garbage was dumped onto it into the early 2000s, the city said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/news/local/former-west-palm-beach-landfill-would-be-cleaned-c/nkRjS/?icmp=pbp_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_pbpstubtomypbp_launch#93837be6.3949084.735667

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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
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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