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EPA aims to finally knock out Lake’s Tower Chemical Superfund site

Por: Orlando Sentinel Crime February 02, 2023

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A local company that brewed bug killer for the region’s formerly robust citrus industry used DDT as an ingredient. That recipe at Tower Chemical spit out an unwanted mess, including dicofol, another pesticide, and a nasty concoction, DCBP. The deadly, discarded stuff, all in the greater DDT family, was flushed into a pit dug into an old sinkhole that percolated way down to the Floridan Aquifer. The pollution, exacerbated by a burn pit, churned... + full article



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