[CPEO-BIF] Los Angeles schools and contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

LA school district wrestles with environmental issues in building boom

LAURA WIDES
Associated Press/San Jose Mercury News (CA)
July 4, 2005

LOS ANGELES - The gold walls and chrome balconies of Santee High School
gleam against a backdrop of warehouses and aging homes. The newly
planted grass on the football field awaits trampling by hundreds of cleats.

When it opens July 5, the campus in tough South Los Angeles will become
the first completely new high school built in 35 years in the city. It's
part of the biggest ongoing school construction project in the United
States and stands as a symbol of revival for the nation's second-largest district.

Yet Santee, built upon the contaminated site of an old dairy, also
symbolizes the challenges the Los Angeles Unified School District faces
in building environmentally safe schools in an area where contamination
and earthquake faults cut through the earth.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/12052865.htm

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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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