Tallevast, Florida

Tallevast is an unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida, United States.

[4] A historically African American neighborhood, Tallevast has for many decades been left underdeveloped and underfunded.

[6] Tallevast was home to the American Beryllium Company plant, which built parts for nuclear warheads for the federal government.

It was determined that for several decades runoff from the American Beryllium Co. plant had been contaminating the groundwater in the Tallevast community.

In 2009, Lockheed Martin pledged to clean up the pollutants from the area, a plan which is expected to take up to 50 years.