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Orlando, Fla., Site May Soon Get Referral to EPA's Superfund Program.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2004

By Kevin Spear, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 16--An Orlando neighborhood soon may be declared a Superfund site, a designation of last resort for badly polluted areas, because of a toxic chemical stewing deep underground.

Nearly 40 acres bordered by lakes Formosa, Ivanhoe and Highland was left contaminated by a business that cleaned electronic parts in the 1960s for NASA. Investigators have determined that the company, long out of existence, dumped barrels of solvent at the back of its lot on Brookhaven Drive.

That dumping decades ago has left the neighborhood and city government in a bind today. Either the city pays for a cleanup or the Environmental Protection Agency turns to Superfund, its main...

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