CSXT agrees to pay $11.2 million to clean up Desoto County, Fla., site
Written by jrood
Jacksonville-based CSX Transportation reached an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to pay $11.2 million to clean up a former wood treatment plant site in Desoto County in Southwest Florida, the Florida Times-Union reports.
The plant was used by a
predecessor railroad to CSXT and has been closed since 1952. CSXT said it has already
spent $2 million in cleanup costs at the site and the company will spend an
estimated $9.2 million more to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. government on
behalf of the EPA, according to a consent decree posted this month in the Federal
Register.
The decree says that no one
lives at the site and it "should be classified as ‘no apparent’ public
health hazard."
