[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FUDS: Odyssey Middle School lawsuit

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Orange County school district sues engineers for approving school site 
on former bombing range
Suit alleges that firms knew or should have known that the Odyssey 
Middle School site had potential hazards

Rich McKay
Orlando Sentinel
July 15, 2009

The Orange County school district is suing two engineering companies 
that gave the green light to build a middle school on part of a former 
World War II-era bombing range.

Tons of bomb debris and hundreds of unexploded bombs and rockets have 
been unearthed at Odyssey Middle School and in its southeast Orlando 
neighborhood.

The suit filed in Orange Circuit Court Wednesday alleges that the firms, 
URS Greiner Woodward-Clyde Inc. and Universal Engineering Sciences Inc., 
and its engineers either knew or should have known that the 34-acre 
Odyssey site had potential hazards.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-bomb-lawsuit-odyssey-071609,0,6734368.story

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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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