Florida Groundwater Pollution Site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Environmental officials investigate Tallevast
Residents hope efforts will lead to changes

KEVIN O'HORAN and DANA SANCHEZ
The Herald (Bradenton, FL)
May 15, 2004

TALLEVAST - Environmental regulators and health officials rolled into
Tallevast early Friday, swarming the community to get a fix on how many
homes tap into groundwater and whether illnesses reported by residents
are linked to toxic chemicals leaked from the former American Beryllium
Co. plant.

Residents welcomed the efforts but lamented that they came more than
four years after officials first learned of contamination at the facility.

"We've had throat cancer. We've had stomach cancer. We've had liver
cancer. We've had colon cancer," said Laura Ward, president of FOCUS, a
community activist group. "We've had low-weight babies. You name it, and
we've seen it.

"The flag just hasn't gone up, though."

Two flags went up Friday. The first signaled that Florida and Manatee
County environmental officials and Lockheed Martin Corp. leaders would
check again for area wells that may draw from possibly fouled
groundwater. And the second announced that Florida health department
crews had kicked off a detailed look at the health history of the
plant's neighbors.

Both are measures pressed for by FOCUS, since they learned in October
that crews working for Lockheed Martin Corp. in early 2000 discovered
that a spill under previous ownership had released a mix of metals and
solvents onto the plant grounds and to water beneath it.

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for the entire story, see
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/8671978.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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