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The property's owner, , declined to say whetheer it would develop or sell the property aftee containing the harmful pesticides and other potentially dangerous chemicals on the site adjacent tothe St. Johnsw River. It also isn't clead how long the containment which involves building clay walls underground anda bulkhead, will take, said Jordanm Garrard, Environmental Protection Agency remediao project manager. The targeted chemicals, which include found their way into the soil from fertilizer manufacturing and pesticide and herbicidr mixing businesses onthe property.
Such operationse began in the 1890s, exchanged handes several times and continued until whenthe property's owner, closed the facility. Tronox is a spin-ofgf company of Kerr-McGee. When introduced into the the chemicals can killsmall organisms, such as plankton and Because those organisms are the beginninh of the food chain, fish can also be If the proposed containment strategy is approved, desighn work will begin in late September and is expected take six to eightr months, Garrard said. The actual containment would take a year to a year and a half and coulds begin as soon asspring 2009.
The Jacksonvillee Port Authority is preparing its own remedial effortsa less than a mile north of the Tronox and lease part of the 20 acres oftargetex property. The property was formerly the home of an ArmoutFertilizer facility. The primaru concern is the high levelpof arsenic, which may leak into the groundwater, an independenyt environmental assessment suggests. The authority hasn't decider whether it will clean up or containmthe chemicals. A timetable for eithet has yet tobe set, nor does the authorit know how much it will cost to bring the propertyh up to environmental standards.