[CPEO-BIF] J&A Floral, Benton, Maine

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Benton continues cleanup

Beth Staples
Kennebec Journal (ME)
November 18, 2011

BENTON -- Everett Whitman sat in his white sedan parked near his  
former floral shop and greenhouses on Clinton Avenue and watched the  
hazardous waste cleanup this week.

The 76-year-old said when the heating system at J&A Floral fell into  
disrepair seven or eight years ago, he was unable to continue the  
third-generation family business.

The ongoing cleanup entails emptying and removing the buried  
nonconforming bare steel oil tanks once used to help heat the  
greenhouses, as well as carting away contaminated soil, according to  
Chris Swain, an environmental specialist with the Department of  
Environmental Protection. The project is expected to be completed by  
the end of November.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.kjonline.com/news/benton-continues- 
cleanup_2011-11-17.html#0_undefined,0_

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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
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