Article 6KDMM A Florida neighborhood says an old factory made them sick. Now developers want to kick up toxic soil

A Florida neighborhood says an old factory made them sick. Now developers want to kick up toxic soil

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Jordan Blumetti
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Residents already hit with disease are fighting the multibillion-dollar corporation DR Horton, America's largest homebuilder

Kristen Burke and her husband, Harold, moved into their home in Russell Landing, a rural suburb just outside of Jacksonville, Florida, nearly 15 years ago. The quiet and tight-knit neighborhood sits next to a shaggy pine forest and a blackwater canal. This was our dream home," said Burke.

It wasn't until 2018 that she realized the extent of the pollution lurking next door: according to Burke, who recently became part of a local watchdog effort, an industrial plant that once operated nearby left barrels of toxic waste buried in the ground and never came back to clean up.

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