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Addressing the paint thinners, cleaning solvents, old batteries and other hazardous wastes generated by ordinary households, Mr. Saylor said: “We throw away everything - out of sight, out of mind. What happens over time to those compounds? We’re only starting to find out the answers.” Evidence indicates that heavy metals and other dangerous pollutants “go right through a renovated base like it wasn’t there,” he added.

$500,000 an acre?

A double-lined facility, necessary to protect groundwater from contamination, “maybe will cost as much as half a million dollars an acre for engineering, design and construction,” said Buchart Horn’s director of chemistry and earth sciences.

According to Mr. Wright, the Department of Waste Management requires at least six inches of impermeable soil for the final two feet-of

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