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Article: Gas Company Purchases Homes on Polluted Portsmouth, Va., Land.
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- December 6, 2003
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By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 6--PORTSMOUTH, Va.--Two more homes in the Swimming Point neighborhood near Olde Towne have been purchased by a gas company and will be demolished because of environmental threats beneath them.
The homes, at 100 Washington St. and 604 Craford Place, are the sixth and seventh residences to be bought in the prestigious community by Columbia Gas of Virginia as part of its cleanup of a defunct gas manufacturing plant built before the Civil War.
With no rules or knowledge about industrial wastes, the energy plant converted coal into methane gas for local ...