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:: Sunday, November 02, 2003 ::
Trucks That Hauled Wastewater Later Carried Fruit Juice By STEVEN ISBITTS
Minute Maid and Tropicana have stopped using Winter Haven-based Indian River Transport for beverage deliveries because the company brought them juice in truck tankers that previously carried toxic phosphate wastewater.
The untreated phosphate wastewater, which contained mercury, arsenic, cyanide, cadmium and about 60 other compounds, came from the defunct Piney Point phosphate plant in Palmetto.
Coke seeks to keep plant license in India By V.M. THOMAS
Farmers complain that their wells and rivers have been drying up because of excessive use of water by the plant.
Coca-Cola also denies the farmers' claim that a high level of lead and cadmium were found in sludge from a Coke plant. The company had given the sludge to farmers as free fertilizer.------------------------------------------- posted 8:35 AM :: reference link ::
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