[CPEO-MEF] CONTRACTORS, VOCS: "Residents doubt Tallevast [FL] safety plan"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

By DONNA WRIGHT
Bradenton Herald (FL)
July 26, 2008

Lockheed Martin Corp. announced Friday night its timetable for the 
cleanup of the Tallevast pollution plume could be cut almost in half, 
but failed once again to calm the fears of neighborhood residents who 
believe the project is putting them at risk.

And once again, Lockheed failed to dispel the mistrust that has lingered 
since 2003 when Tallevast residents found out the company had discovered 
three years earlier that dangerous chemicals spread from a nearby 
beryllium plant but never told them it may have leaked into their backyards.

Lockheed representatives met with residents at Mount Tabor Church to 
explain how they were going to safeguard the community's wellbeing over 
the next four months as two buildings at the beryllium plant site are 
dismantled to gain access to extract the most contaminated soil at the 
site of the spill.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bradenton.com/local/story/763770.html

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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
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