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OVIEDO, Fla. -- For longer than many can remember, grieving Black families have followed the caskets of their deceased loved ones along a bumpy dirt road into Boston Cemetery where
The safety of the drinking-water supply is everyone’s business. Judging by the surge of response to the Sentinel’s recent “Toxic Secret” investigation, Seminole County residents understand that — and feel a real sense of urgency to get answers, a decade after a persistent and potentially cancer-causing chemical was detected in the supply wells of three local water utilities. Read Orlando ...
The Orlando Sentinel will host a community forum to discuss 1,4-dioxane contamination of Seminole County drinking water next week at Seminole State College in Sanford. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required to attend. Sentinel reporters Kevin Spear, Martin E. Comas and Caroline Catherman will participate in the forum and discuss their series of reports called ...
A heavy truck toting a robust machine arrived a few months ago in a quiet Lake Mary neighborhood of medical offices, small shops and the city’s fire station No. 37. At the back of the mobile drilling rig, workers lowered a steel snout to the ground and bored a pair of holes several hundred feet into the earth and into the Floridan Aquifer. It was a renewed effort to probe for the 1,4-dioxane ...
A day after an Orlando Sentinel investigation revealed that a toxic chemical has contaminated drinking water in northwest Seminole County for years, county officials on Wednesday posted a brief explanation of 1,4-dioxane on Seminole’s website and assured the public that its water is safe. “The county’s potable water systems are sampled and tested for contaminants based on monitoring ...