[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Toxic dirt at new mountain bike park, " former Orlando Naval Training Center (FL)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic dirt at new mountain bike park causing concern

By Dave D'Marko
Central Florida News 13
September 20, 2011


ORLANDO -- The City Beautiful is refusing to open a new mountain bike  
park right now because city inspectors discovered the park has toxic  
dirt inside.

They spent weeks carving out trails in the woods of Area C, the long  
abandoned former site of the Orlando Naval Training Center.

...

To make way for the park, the City of Orlando demolished a 1950s era  
Naval building. But when they tested the soil below, inspectors said  
they found potentially harmful pesticides used to kill termites.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2011/september/315018/Toxic-dirt- 
causing-concern-in-Orange-County

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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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