[CPEO-BIF] Trinity Uptown project, Fort Worth, Texas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

What lurks beneath?

By MAX B. BAKER
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX)
January 31, 2007	

FORT WORTH -- "Toxic" is not how Bud Brumley would describe his building 
on North Main Street.

Since moving in seven years ago, Brumley has yanked out a hydraulic jack 
left over from the days when his 1930s building was a garage. Brumley 
Printing's presses don't use dangerous chemicals, and any leftover ink 
is stored in barrels and disposed of properly.

So it came as a surprise when Brumley learned his property is among 79 
potentially contaminated sites in the path of the sweeping Trinity 
Uptown project.

"We had the jack dug up and the soil tested. I'm surprised to be on the 
list," Brumley said. "Some of our employees may glow in the dark, but 
the soil is not going to."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/community/16587383.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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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