Small-town (SW FL) residents living on deadly ground

Small-town residents living on deadly ground
BY RONNIE GREENE
In this deeply rooted village in Southwest Florida, it's not unusual to find generations of the same family living doors apart. Now these lifelong settlers are bracing for their hamlet to die.

The water in this black community tucked between Bradenton and Sarasota is poisoned with cancer-causing chemicals leaked from an old beryllium plant that anchors the neighborhood of 80 homes.

The health toll is still being gauged, but the residents have cause to fear the worst.

For more than three years, neither the plant's owner nor Florida state regulators who had learned of the leak bothered to tell them.

''I feel cheated,'' said Laura Ward. ``The treatment we have gotten in this community is deplorable.''

Ward was the first Tallevast resident to learn of the toxic chemicals beneath the community. Her first clue came when she happened to look out her window one day in 2003 to see a giant rig drilling monitoring wells on her property.

In time, she and others would learn of the pollution's reach: Tallevast, a century-old village that covers just 1.5 square miles, is sitting on a 200-acre toxic plume, filled with sick residents and confronted with sinking property values.

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Drove it everyday.

have the science and the technology to eradicate these issues, or at the very least move this community. Maybe because all the safty reasons we have used to go to war have depleated anymore safty concerns for Americans. Let's make America a society were everyone is living in a healthy community.

Their pollution for profit of the few is terrible too. The globalists are destroying all of us and our earth.

I thought it must be, glad to know cynicism is working still.

also - since miami.com is registration required - you can get login info here

www.bugmenot.com