[CPEO-BIF] Ponce de Leon Resort, St. Augustine, Florida

[Lenny Siegel]

Residents speak against brownfield


KATI BEXLEY
St. Augustine Record (FL)
October 10. 2006

The St. Augustine City Commission held its first public hearing Monday 
on whether to allow a developer to receive a tax break to clean the 
contaminated former Ponce de Leon Resort property.

"I think it's morally wrong to ask taxpayers to pay for this," said Bob 
Frohardt, a Ponte Vedra Beach resident, one of two people who spoke at 
the hearing.

The former Ponce site on U.S. 1, north of the city, covers 419 acres of 
which 284 acres are contaminated with arsenic. It was used for weed 
control on the Ponce golf course from 1916 to 2003.

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For the entire article, see
http://staugustine.com/stories/101006/news_4136374.shtml

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org