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The 7.5-acre park has not reopened since December 2015, when it closed for the season, according to the township. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency in early 2016 detected high concentrations of lead at the former shooting range.
The site was cordoned off in April of last year. An Ohio EPA official then said high lead levels in soil at the park were initially discovered three years earlier, but overlooked in what Michael Proffitt, the chief of the Ohio EPA’s division of environmental response and revitalization, called “a big mistake.”
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The state asked the federal agency to assist. Soil in the yards of more than two dozen homes surrounding the park were then tested, with only one property showing above acceptable readings, records show.
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