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Kevin Spear

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I cover the environment for the Orlando Sentinel.
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Probe points to culprits behind chemical in Florida county’s drinking water

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By Kevin Spear 
| Tampa Bay Times
Beginning more than a half-century ago, a cancer-linked chemical has been plunging hundreds of feet through sinkholes beneath a telecommunications factory in Lake Mary, spreading for miles through the Floridan Aquifer and invading water wells serving thousands of Seminole County residents. A few local officials and experts began some years ago to discuss the presence of that chemical, without fully understanding the extent of the issue, and the Orlando Sentinel disclosed their concerns.
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New probe fingers culprits behind 1,4-dioxane in Seminole drinking water Original

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By Kevin Spear 
| Orlando Sentinel
Beginning more than a half-century ago, a cancer-linked chemical has been plunging hundreds of feet through sinkholes beneath a telecommunications factory in Lake Mary, spreading for miles through the Floridan Aquifer and invading water wells serving thousands of Seminole County residents. A few local officials and experts began some years ago to discuss the presence of that chemical, without fully understanding the extent of the issue, and the Orlando Sentinel disclosed their concerns.
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How an Orlando manatee star departed EPCOT for new home Original

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By Kevin Spear 
| Orlando Sentinel
Lil Joe, perhaps the most traveled and best known manatee ever, was bid farewell from Disney's EPCOT on a shivery, drizzly night this past week. The event unfolded as an iconic tribute for an esteemed cast member. Not so "lil" at almost a ton, the animal silently and gracefully levitated as if in a magic act, hoisted by the long cable of a crane with a 101-foot boom positioned on a parking lot outside his aquarium home.
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