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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...junkyards and gas stations. Engineers walked the property with equipment that detected heavy-metal deposits, then bored some 600 holes and collected more than 5,000 soil and water samples. A color-coded map showed the worst problems: pink for lead and arsenic, green for petroleum and purple for benzo(a)pyrene, a carcinogenic by-product of garbage incineration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full-Court Cleanup | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

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