[CPEO-BIF] contaminated school site in Detroit

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chalk one up

Metro Times Detroit
October 13-19, 2004

The issue of contamination at the Roberto Clemente Learning Academy in
southwest Detroit is never going to be fully laid to rest as long as
classrooms remain on the site of what used to be the New Beard School.
With arsenic, lead, PCBs and lots of other nasty stuff in the ground
there, vigilance will be the watchword for years to come.

Nonetheless, environmentalists and activists are hailing an agreement
with Detroit Public Schools formalized last week in the courtroom of
federal Judge Denise Page Hood. The settlement provides parents
guaranteed access to information about the site, and prompt legal
recourse if a barrier installed to contain the contamination isn't
properly maintained, or if a schedule of testing is not adhered to.
...

for the entire article, see
http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=6852
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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