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By The Tampa Tribune
In June, the Environmental Protection Agency bankrolled nearly $3 million in projects to find, sort and clean up damaged properties across central Florida, with a significant level being earmarked for the Tampa area, according to the Tampa Tribune.
The EPA's brownfields program provided Plant City with $600,000 to clean up three polluted properties downtown. Pasco County got $1 million to locate sites that need help and plan for their cleanup. The Central Florida Regional Planning Council in Bartow also got $1 million to make loans for cleanups. Much of that money is likely going to projects in Mulberry and Fort Meade, the newspaper report indicated.
The latest grants bring to $7.5 million the federal investment in cleaning up polluted sites around the Tampa Bay region. That's about a quarter of more than $29 million the EPA has pumped into Florida since its brownfields program started in 2002.
In years past, the EPA has financed cleanups in Tampa, Clearwater, Hillsborough County and Pinellas County. All told, Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties have 46 areas designated as brownfields.
In Plant City, city officials hope their brownfields grant will help revitalize the Evers Street area near downtown by clearing away the pollution left behind by three former businesses – the Gro Mor fertilizer warehouse, Stock Lumber Co. and Hydraulic Hose. All three sites have been contaminated by leaking underground fuel tanks. The Gro Mor site also has fertilizer in the groundwater beneath it.
Source: The Tampa Tribune
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