[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: E-Systems/Raytheon, St. Petersburg, FL

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Neglected Toxic Waste Plume Worries Neighborhood

Mark Douglas
News Channel 8 (Tampa Bay, FL)
March 27, 2008


ST. PETERSBURG - Homeowner Jim Abel spruced up his yard last May with 
new sod, landscaping, sprinklers and a well for irrigation.

"With the water shortage, I had a lot of freedom with the well," he said.

Abel had no inkling the industrial drill rigs that started appearing in 
the street in front of his 12th Avenue home might foreshadow a problem 
with his irrigation well.

A toxic plume of industrial waste discovered by workers building the 
Pinellas Trail 17 years ago is now coursing through groundwater under 
Abel's Azalea neighborhood, beneath parks, playgrounds and hundreds of 
homes, according to samples drawn from test wells.


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For the entire article, see
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/mar/27/neglected-toxic-waste-plume-worries-neighborhood/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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