[CPEO-BIF] Bronx High School on toxic Defense site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bronx HS site toxic bonanza 

Juan Gonzalez
New York Daily News
June 28, 2005 

Loral Electronics - on whose former site the city hurriedly opened a new
South Bronx high school in September - was generating thousands of
pounds of hazardous waste per year before shutting down its operations
in the late 1990s.

State Department of Environmental Conservation records obtained by the
Daily News show that in 1997 alone, Loral generated more than 11,000
pounds of hazardous waste at its Soundview manufacturing facility along
the Bronx River.

Included in that year's waste were 5,374 pounds of industrial solvents,
507 pounds of mercury, 100 pounds of lead and 14 pounds of cadmium.

Many of the same heavy metals and organic chemicals that Loral
generated, especially TCE and PCE - chlorinated organic chemicals most
commonly found in solvents - have now shown up in contaminated soil and
ground water at the Soundview site.

Even worse, the contaminants are finding their way into the air that
students at the new Soundview Educational Center are breathing.

...

For the entire news column, see
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/323112p-276212c.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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