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Florida County Votes against New Jail on Former EPA Superfund Site, Opts to Stay in Flood Zone
Controversy arose at a November 12, 2015 Escambia County Commission meeting in Pensacola, Florida over a plan to construct a new jail. The county’s old jail had been damaged by a flood and natural gas explosion the previous year. Of three possible locations for the new facility, a consulting firm ...
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