Noticias
y campañas
de la OCA
en español
TALLEVAST -- 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. Read More
Small-Town Residents Living on Deadly Ground
-
Small-Town Residents Living on Deadly Ground
Residents of Tallevast blame toxins that leaked into the ground and their water supply as a factor in the 80 cancers of family members and neighbors over the years, and they want someone held accountable.
By Ronnie Greene
Miami Herald, 5/3/08
Straight to the Source