[CPEO-BIF] Tallevast (FL) contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tallevast to dominate agenda

DONNA WRIGHT
Bradenton Herald (FL)
January 30, 2005

Mark Tuesday as Tallevast Day in Manatee County Commission chambers.

Two demands from Tallevast residents dominate the agenda:

* Temporary relocation of 85 households because of health threats
stemming from continued drilling to determine how far toxic waste from
the old American Beryllium Coin has migrated into their back yards.

* A moratorium on all construction in the Tallevast area until the
extent of contamination is known and cleaned up.

Family Oriented Community United Strong, a group representing residents'
interests, expressed its fears in a Jan. 6 letter to commissioners and
Ernie Padgett, county administrator.

"We have been left . . . sitting atop of a virtual time bomb," wrote the
president of FOCUS, Laura Ward and Wanda Washington, vice president.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/10770013.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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