[CPEO-BIF] "Homeowners Sue Aventura Isles Developers Over Chemical Contamination, " Miami, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Homeowners Sue Aventura Isles Developers Over Chemical Contamination

By IZZY KAPNICK 
Miami New Times (FL)
DECEMBER 27, 2019 

Built atop an old golf course, a polished new Miami community was marketed as a "rare gem" with "pristine lakes and natural preserves." Taking advantage of low real-estate prices in the wake of the 2008 collapse of the U.S. housing market, buyers gobbled up units.

Ten homeowners in Aventura Isles now allege the sleek ads and slick sales agents were a façade that covered up the site's history of chemical contamination. Their season's greeting was a lawsuit accusing the developers of hiding the contamination in an effort to bolster sales.

The plaintiffs claim that when they bought properties in Aventura Isles, the developers and sales agents never disclosed that there was an ongoing soil cleanup project and that Miami-Dade County had placed usage restrictions on the site owing to elevated levels of arsenic and the pesticide dieldrin.

Allegedly, more than $160 million worth of homes in Aventura Isles were sold off before the developers admitted to the county that the land-use restrictions had never been recorded in public records as mandated.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-is-one-of-the-worst-places-in-the-us-for-asylum-seekers-11407684

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





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