[CPEO-BIF] "Cleanup, soil removal begins at Melbourne apartment complex in Booker Heights, " Florida

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup, soil removal begins at Melbourne apartment complex in Booker Heights

By J.D. Gallop
Florida Today
April 5, 2021

Workers began sorting through and removing the soil from around a south Melbourne affordable housing complex built on a site in Booker Heights used for decades as a dumping ground for abandoned cars and other waste products.

Residents were encouraged to stay indoors during the environmental cleanup. 

The action — slated to take up to three weeks to complete — started Monday at the Crane Creek site where contractors had already built the Heritage Park apartment complex along the intersection of Grant and Burr streets.

The contaminated soil will be collected, loaded onto 10 trucks, and hauled to a site in Osceola County. 

"It's a slight victory," said Joseph McNeil, president of the Concerned Citizens Committee, the group that lobbied Melbourne City Council for the site to be designated for environmental cleanup.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2021/04/05/trucks-began-hauling-away-loads-contaminated-soil-melbourne-site/7093601002/

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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
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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