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May 8, 2007 7:34 am US/Eastern

Dixon Names Task Force To Look Into Swann Park

BALTIMORE (AP) ― Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon says citizens deserve to know why Swann Park wasn't closed 30 years ago, when
authorities first learned of high arsenic levels in the soil.

Dixon is forming a task force to investigate. It will be chaired by health commissioner Doctor Joshua Sharfstein.

High arsenic levels force city health officials to close the park last month. It is next to a former Allied Chemical Company pesticide plant that closed in 1976. The plant site is now owned by Honeywell International.

Johns Hopkins researcher, Doctor Genevieve Matanoski, documented high arsenic levels in the in the 1970s. But she says nobody acted on the warning.

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