2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 29 Jan 2007 05:10:17 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: Re: [CPEO-BIF] Tallevast (FL) plume threatens development
 
[Sorry, I hit the send button prematurely. - LS]


HERALD EXCLUSIVE: Testing reveals Tallevast plume expanding east

DONNA WRIGHT
Bradenton Herald (FL)
January 20, 2007	

TALLEVAST - The Tallevast contamination plume map is about to change.

The toxic underground waste has spread farther east than current maps show and could affect plans for a retail-office complex called The Forum, according to an attorney representing developer Trey Desenberg.

New tests have confirmed that Desenberg's property at the northwest corner of U.S. 301 and Tallevast Road is contaminated, said Ralph A. DeMeo, of the Tallahassee firm Hopping Green & Sams.

State-approved plume maps drawn by Lockheed Martin Corp., which is responsible for cleaning up the pollution traced back to a beryllium plant the company purchased, put Desenberg's property beyond the eastern edge of the known 200-acre plume.

But Desenberg's own surveys indicate the toxic waste has spread much farther east, according to a memo DeMeo sent to the Department of Environmental Protection on Sept. 12.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/16504436.htm

See also the editorial
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/opinion/16546471.htm

And the story in the competing newspaper

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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