| From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
| Date: | Wed, 6 Jan 2010 16:41:26 -0800 (PST) |
| Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
| Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] APF Industries, Bay Pines, Florida |
Pollution from Bay Pines plant hasn't spread, tests show By MARK DOUGLAS News Channel 8/Tampa Bay Online (FL)The Pinellas County Health Department says irrigation well testing shows dangerous chemicals from a former industrial plant near Bay Pines have not reached surrounding neighborhoods. Some heavy metals were detected in the tests but they may be from another source. "It's not something that we're concerned about," said Gayle Guidash, environmental health director for the Pinellas Health Department. The former metal-plating plant at 4800 95th St. N., operated as APF Industries, has been a trouble spot for pollution since 1993. That's when investigators stumbled into an unsecured laboratory with open containers of poisons such as cyanide and arsenic and spilled acids that turned the concrete floor to mush. ... For the entire article, see http://suncoastpinellas.tbo.com/content/2010/jan/05/pollution-bay-pines-plant-hasnt-spread-tests-show/ -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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