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Ex-owner sued over toxins at Hiroshima stadium site

Written by Writer on Friday, October 24th, 2008

Ex-owner sued over toxins at Hiroshima stadium site

The Yomiuri Shimbun

HIROSHIMA–The site of a baseball stadium currently under construction here is at the center of a 400 million yen lawsuit filed against its former owner by a municipal government-affiliated property development firm, after the land was found to contain high levels of arsenic and other harmful substances, it was learned Friday.

The amount sought is to cover the cost of earth removal and decontamination.

According to the suit, the property development firm–set up by the Hiroshima municipal government to identify and purchase land for use in public works projects–bought the 11.1-hectare site in March 1998 for about 11 billion yen.

The city government then purchased 6.6 hectares of the site, which had formerly been a Japan Railway freight yard.

Research conducted by the city after the purchase revealed that arsenic, lead and other toxic substances were present in soil on the site at levels up to 10 times the concentration deemed safe by law.
(Oct. 25, 2008)

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