[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Key Largo Air Force Station (FL)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEP Fails to Disclose Toxic Contamination at Key Largo State Park,  
Complaint Alleges

By Chris Sweeney
Broward-Palm Beach New Times (FL)
August 29, 2012

There's more than meets the eye on the pristine grounds of Key Largo  
Hammock Botanical Park.

Newly released documents from 2006  show that levels of lead and  
arsenic in soil samples taken from parts of the park exceeded the  
allowed residential and industrial limits.

...

The park is located on grounds that once belonged to the Key Largo  
Air Force Station. One of the contaminated areas is near the former  
site of an underground storage tank that was part of a Nike missile  
launch site. The other contaminated area of the park was a former  
skeet shooting range.

...

For the entire article, see
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2012/08/ 
dep_ignores_toxic_contaminatio.php

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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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