Florida Homeowner Reaches Settlement in Phosphate Mining Radiation Case

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A Polk County resident has reached a confidential settlement with Drummond Co. Inc. based on claims that the Alabama-based mining operator failed to warn him about dangerously high levels of radiation in his Grasslands neighborhood. Drummond conducted phosphate mining for several years in the Central Florida region before developing the Oakbridge and Grasslands neighborhoods for commercial and residential use in the 1980s. According to Environmental Protection Agen