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Some 6,500 residents called the emerging river port of Hannibal, Missouri, home in 1860; settlers from the south were seeking available farm land, and developers from the east came to
Residents were encouraged to stay indoors during the environmental cleanup.
The action slated to take up to three weeks to complete started Monday at the Crane Creek site where contractors had already built the Heritage Park apartment complex along the intersection of Grant and Burr streets.
The contaminated soil will be collected, loaded onto 10 trucks, and hauled to a site in Osceola County. It s a slight victory, said Joseph McNeil, president of the Concerned Citizens Committee, the group that lobbied Melbourne City Council for the site to be designated for environmental cleanup.
The City Council initially voted unanimously Nov. 13 to designate the property as a brownfield area.