2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:44:58 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] South Fort Myers High School, Florida
 
South Fort Myers High School land contaminated, documents show

By CHARLIE WHITEHEAD
Naples News (FL)
November 3, 2009

LEE COUNTY - When Lee County engineers were looking to widen Metro Parkway in 2003, they looked into buying the property at 14061 Plantation Drive. When they discovered arsenic contamination they backed off and bought elsewhere.

The arsenic is still there. So is South Fort Myers High School.

Recent testing does not show arsenic at dangerous levels, but when the school was built in 2004, it tested at higher levels. It should’ve been cleaned up, said Bill Moore, the school district executive director.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/nov/03/south-fort-myers-high-school-land-contaminated-doc/

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Lenny Siegel
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