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Eight Million for Toxic Land | Salt Lake City News
UDOT just dropped eight million dollars on a contaminated land parcel for a gondola project — despite glaring red flags. The site, once a Superfund cleanup zone, still harbored arsenic and lead, yet the appraisal ignored those risks. Agencies claimed it was cleared, but internal documents show warnings that deleted sites can still pose serious hazards. The sellers — politically connected insiders — say they weren’t aware of the EPA’s lead concerns, and UDOT’s own project manager admits a deeper investigation may come later — if the project survives funding. Critics call it a taxpayer-funded…
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