August 10, 2007 - Coral Gables attorney Reginald Clyne has notified Mayor Jim Naugle and Florida’s chief financial officer that he intends to sue the city over toxic chemicals found in the Durrs neighborhood.
“I have put the city on notice that I represent some of the residents,” Clyne told the Broward Times about the July 25 letter, which the city received on Aug. 1. Clyne copied the letter to Louise Caro, an environmental specialist and attorney with Legal Aid Service of Broward County, Inc. Legal Aid has been assisting Durrs residents in an effort to get more tests done and to have the entire area cleaned up. Now, Caro said, Legal Aid is partnering with Clyne in the proposed lawsuit against the city.
The city operated a garbage incinerator in the neighborhood, north of Sistrunk Boulevard and west of Interstate 95, from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.
The incinerator spewed ash from burned garbage into the air. Residents who lived there at the time said they saw the ash fall on their yards and automobiles as if it were snow.
Today, state and federal health officials have found high levels of toxic chemicals, including arsenic, lead and dioxin, on the site. But no study has ever conclusively linked the toxins with the incinerator. Clyne, however, blames the incinerator for the toxins in the neighborhood.
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