[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Old pollution puts brakes on mountain-bike park, " former Orland Naval Training Center (FL)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Old pollution puts brakes on mountain-bike park

By Mark Schlueb
Orlando Sentinel (FL)
November 9, 2012

It's been two years since hundreds of volunteers turned out for  
cleanups and trailblazing to turn a piece of old Navy land near  
downtown into Orlando's first mountain-bike park.



Hopes ran high, and it looked as if the park would open within a few  
months.



But that never happened, and the gate at the park entrance remains  
padlocked. The issue: chemical pollution lurking in the soil that  
could take another year to clean up.



"We're at a giant standstill," said mountain-bike enthusiast Mario  
Maenza, who runs a Facebook page with 1,400 members who pushed for  
the park.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-orlando- 
mountain-bike-park-20121109,0,104608.story

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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