Thursday, August 9, 2007

Fort Lauderdale residents get no answers on neighborhood contamination

August 9, 2007 - After hearing all the bureaucrats and gobbledygook, Kerline Jeanmary's question was straightforward: What is Fort Lauderdale going to do about contaminated soil found around homes near an old city incinerator?

Residents who live near Lincoln Park, in northwest Fort Lauderdale, got no clear answers at a town hall meeting on Tuesday.

The incinerator has been gone for 50 years, but the pollutants it spewed — such as arsenic, dioxins and lead — apparently still remain in the Durrs neighborhood.

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