Well, it has happened again. Another luxury builder develops residential development on a former bombing range- this time in the Orlando area. This follows a well-publicized development in Dallas and a number of sites with manufactured housing in the south.
The common thread with all of these sites is that the bombing range were to TRAIN world war two bombers and consultants in each case determined that since the properties were ADJACENT to the bombing practice area there was little likelihood of munitions being present.
My question how can these consultants assume that all the bombs landed on the 'x'? TheY were TRAINING bombers. do you think it is likely that some of them missed their targets or accidentally dropped their loads prematurely?
Then of course there are my 'favorite' commodity shop environmental consultants who did not know the moble home parks (MHPs) were located near target fields because they only researched historical use back to the 1960s since that was when the MHPs were first developed!!
So now, the home builder in Orlando has three class action lawsuits filed against it. With the Florida real estate market already suffering the worst slump since the Great Depression, you got to believe having the local school children bringing 60 year old bombs to school for show and tell are not going to do much for the local housing prices.
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