Residents to sue Fort Lauderdale over polluted soil

August 14, 2007 - Homeowners in a Fort Lauderdale neighborhood have decided to sue the city over contaminated soil caused by an old municipal incinerator that operated in the community some 50 years ago.

The group from the Durrs neighborhood has hired Miami lawyer Reginald Clyne, who filed a notice of intent to sue the city on behalf of six residents.

The city has known about the contaminated soil for at least 10 years, Clyne said.

''They are going to ignore it for as long as they can,'' Clyne said. ``But the longer they ignore it, the worse it will get.''

But Mayor Jim Naugle questions whether the contamination -- which may have come from the old Lincoln Park incinerator -- is the city's fault.

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