[CPEO-BIF] "Trucks return to Toxic High" (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Trucks return to Toxic High

by Daniel Gesslein
September 6, 2005
Bronx News

Residents of one Bronx community are fuming that high school students 
are still being exposed to idling diesel trucks as well as a potential 
toxic brew beneath their school. "We still don't know what the children 
are being exposed to," said Cynthia Richardson, who lives in the 
building over looking the school at 1440 Story Avenue. "I'm really 
afraid for the children."

Richardson claims that teachers in the school are living in fear. Few 
speak out in public but several have expressed fears about the potential 
exposure. These teachers claim that they and parents have not been told 
about the site's environmental history. The land in which the School 
Construction Authority (SCA) built the new high school was the former 
site of defense manufacturing contractor Loral Electronics. The 
Department of Education is leasing half of the property from JJ Lyons 
and Associates and converted the standing office building into a school. 
Last year the students began attending classes at the new Soundview 
Educational Campus despite the detection of toxins in the soil.
An independent review of the site prepared by Allegiance Resources 
Corporation, contracted by the SCA, stated that a sampling of the soil 
found chromium and mercury with levels that exceeded the state cleanup 
criteria. The ground water sampling found arsenic, barium, cadmium and 
chromium all exceeding the state cleanup level....

For the entire article, see
http://www.gothamgazette.com/community/17/news/1895

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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
http://www.cpeo.org

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