Number	22615
Subject	Environment
Source	Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.)
State	VA
Year	2005
Publication Date	02/26/2005; 03/25/2005; 09/06/2005; 12/28/2005
Summary	Robert McCabe unmasked a failed environmental protection system on the local, state and federal level in Chesapeake, Virginia, that permitted developers to build housing on lands with serious pollution problems. In his first report, McCabe explained how in one subdivision, the lead contamination is so high that home buyers in part of the neighborhood will be forbidden to grow vegetables or to water their lawns with groundwater. Furthermore, their homes sit over an old dump site with high levels of underground combustible gas.
Category	Computer-Assisted Reporting
Pages	30
Keywords	pollution;Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ);River's Edge at Quailshire;environmental hazards; lead contamination
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