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Article: School may be built near site of arsenic: Some parents are alarmed at Seminole's plans for the new Midway Elementary.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2006
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Byline: Dave Weber
Sep. 27--SANFORD -- Officials think they can safely shoehorn a planned $15 million elementary school on part of an arsenic-polluted site east of Sanford if the state gives the go-ahead on the long-delayed project.
The new Midway Elementary would be built on the half of the 30-acre parcel where none of the poison has been found. District officials hope someday to construct a middle school on the polluted section as well, if a way can be found to cleanse the land -- or the arsenic somehow disappears.
Officials are downplaying pollution concerns and say the school site is safe.
"I'm assuming that if the Department of ...