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Plant City, Fla., Decides to Help Fund Landfill Study.
Byline: Dave Nicholson
Aug. 26--PLANT CITY, Fla.--City commissioners agreed Monday to spend up to $15,000 to help study an old landfill near an area where residents have complained of high rates of cancer.
The study will take a look at 10 acres near Park Road and Alabama Street where the city burned and buried garbage from 1959 until 1967. Hillsborough County has agreed to look at an adjacent, slightly smaller landfill it used for about four years until the mid- 1960s.
The city is joining forces with the county and the county Environmental Protection Commission to save expenses on the assessment of the old landfills. The study will include drilling wells to see whether contamination from the landfills has seeped into the groundwater and if so, whether the polluted water has drifted off site.
The old landfills are just north of the Coronet Industries phosphate processing plant. Health and environmental officials are looking at the area around the plant to see whether it or the landfills are contaminating the environment. The officials also are trying ...
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