Palm City history

Monday, Oct. 19, 1998 | 3:42 a.m.

1981: Environmental Protection Agency considers industrial land uphill as a Superfund site.

1988: EPA turns over responsibility for property uphill to the state of Nevada.

1994: Land rezoned from industrial use to residential, restricted to senior citizens. Rhodes buys property from Stewart family trust.

1995-96: Terracon Corp. studies property and finds hazards from chemicals and ground-water radiation.

1996: Rhodes told by state it would need a state permit to discharge water.

1998: Zoning changed again to allow children to live in development.

Summer 1998: Rhodes begins grading old gravel pit for golf course, under a restricted permit.

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