[CPEO-BIF] Schools on contaminated sites in New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New schools being built on contaminated sites

By JAMES W. PRADO ROBERTS and JASON METHOD
Asbury Park Press 
February 20, 2005

New Jersey plans to build multimillion-dollar schools on or near what
are now contaminated properties - including at one federal Superfund
site with radioactive soil - as part of its $6 billion program to
improve school buildings in the state's 31 poorest districts.

The Schools Construction Corp., which is overseeing the massive program
in mostly urban areas, has purchased at least 22 contaminated or
possibly contaminated sites, a review of state records shows.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050220/NEWS/502200415

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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>
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