[CPEO-BIF] "City finally removes Hurricane Irma debris from West Tampa [Florida] brownfield site"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City finally removes Hurricane Irma debris from West Tampa brownfield site
Neighbors were frustrated that they were never notified the debris would be stored in their community for an extended amount of time.

by Emerald Morrow
WTSP TV-10 News (Tampa Bay Area, FL)
June 15, 2018

TAMPA, Fla. -- City officials have agreed to two weekends of neighborhood sweeps and cleanups in West Tampa after large piles of debris from Hurricane Irma were left for weeks in a maintenance yard near the Hillsborough River. 

"The older people that stay next to that debris pile said they had problems with their allergies; there was fugitive dust," said West Tampa Community Redevelopment Area Chairman Joe Robinson. 

Neighbors were frustrated that they were never notified the debris would be stored in their community for an extended amount of time. The yard is also a designated brownfield site, meaning there could already be contamination in the area. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/city-finally-removes-hurricane-irma-debris-from-west-tampa-brownfield-site/67-564754786

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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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