October 9, 2009- An accident waiting to happen. A hazard to the public.
Those are the words Becky Sharp used when she called Pinellas sheriff's deputies to report what she had found at an old industrial plant: Open containers of acids, cyanide and other poisons so powerful they turned concrete to mush and burned her feet.
Sharp, a private environmental inspector, feared the chemicals would catch fire or explode.
The date was Feb. 3, 1992.
Seventeen years later, people living nearby in Bay Pines Estates are hearing about it for the first time. They're learning that the fallout from that neglect may threaten them today.
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