[SOURCE: JULIE BROWN, Miami Herald (FL)]
January 4, 2011
Hollywood city commissioners are considering whether to clean up and redevelop a 32-acre city-owned dump site that was used four decades ago to dispose of incinerator waste and other trash four decades ago.
At Wednesday's regular meeting, the commission will discuss whether to designate the site a "brownfield" -- a label that refers to a contaminated piece of land on industrial sites that have the potential
to be reused.
The land, at the corner of South Park Road and Pembroke Road, was the site of an incinerator that burned up to 450 tons of municipal solid waste per day. It operated from about 1958 to 1973. For a time, the ash
was disposed at area landfills. But, according to the city, in 1963 a pit on the property was filled with trash, brush and other debris. Later, incinerator ash was spread on top of the trash.
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