Article: Safety of school site is still unknown: Seminole leaders can't vouch for arsenic-tainted farmland where Midway Elementary may be built.

Byline: Dave Weber

Feb. 11--SANFORD -- Top Seminole County school officials are unwilling to rate the safety of a planned new elementary-school site where arsenic-laden soil and groundwater were discovered, although they have been assuring the public it is safe enough. Asked to rank on a scale of 1 to 10 how safe they consider the pesticide-tainted farmland where a new Midway Elementary may be built, both Superintendent Bill Vogel and Deputy Superintendent George Kosmac said they could not speculate.

"I am not qualified to give it a rating. I would have to rely on the experts," Vogel said last week when asked by the Orlando Sentinel for his ...

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