[CPEO-BIF] Soundview Educational Campus, the Bronx

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ferrer Says City Should Close School at Old Industrial Site


By DIANE CARDWELL 
New York Times
June 1, 2005

Fernando Ferrer called on the Bloomberg administration yesterday to shut
down a potentially contaminated Bronx high school, in an effort to focus
his campaign on the school system, an area where Mayor Michael R.
Bloomberg is considered vulnerable.

The city's Department of Education opened the school, the Soundview
Educational Campus, in 2004 on part of a site that had been used for
decades by a defense contractor, Loral Electronics, despite an
environmental assessment done for the city that had showed levels of
mercury, chromium, lead, arsenic and other toxic substances much higher
than state standards allow.

The environmental report indicated that the contamination would pose a
hazard only during the construction of the school, but Mr. Ferrer's
mayoral campaign challenged that view, charging that the report was
altered and rushed to allow an existing building to become a school.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/01/nyregion/metrocampaigns/01ferrer.html?

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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
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