[CPEO-BIF] Fort Myers, Florida wellfielde

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Another toxic sludge site - this one with a cleanup plan

by PATRICIA BORNS
Southwest Florida News-Press
August 8, 2017

What’s the viscous orange goo poking through the weeds on the land southwest of Ortiz Avenue and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard?

It’s arsenic-laced sludge, a by-product of the drinking water treatment process, dumped on the city of Fort Myers’ shallow aquifer wellfield.

The same waste The News-Press reported dumped by the city in a historically African American neighborhood of Dunbar from 1962 into the 1970s, and possibly beyond.

The wellfield has been a designated brownfield since 2003 – a contaminated site that can qualify for grants to clean it up and return it to use – while over the same period, its sister site at Henderson Avenue and South Street was moth-balled by city leaders and state officials who knew it could be unsafe, until reported in The News-Press.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.news-press.com/story/news/2017/08/07/another-toxic-sludge-site-one-cleanup-plan/464563001/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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