[CPEO-BIF] Moure sampling at South Bronx high school (NY)

[lsiegel@cpeo.org]

TRUCE AT 'TOXIC HIGH' SCHOOL: OFFICIALS AGREE TO RE-TEST

Local activists make headway in battle over contaminated site.
Department of Education will form task force and conduct more testing. 

By Bryan Farrell
City Limits WEEKLY (NY)
Week of: October 11, 2005 

After years of legal wrangling over the fate of a South Bronx high
school built on contaminated land, the city's Department of Education
(DOE) has agreed to re-test for toxins inside the school and to form a
task force to help address the problem. 

Soundview Educational Campus opened last September amid controversy from
residents, who accused the city of bypassing the public participation
and environmental quality review required for a special permit to build
a school in a manufacturing district. As first reported in the Bronx
News, DOE instead obtained a zoning override and built the school on the
former site of Loral Electronics Systems, which closed in 1996. JJ Lyons
and Associates bought the abandoned property in April 1999 and began
using it as a parking lot, where a city-employed West Nile pesticide
company parked its trucks.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/weeklyView.cfm?articlenumber=1792

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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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