[CPEO-BIF] Upper Freehold school site (NJ)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tainted site will be safe for school, experts say

PUBLIC DIVIDED ON BOARD'S PLAN


BY JOSEPH SAPIA
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
June 30, 2006

Despite the controversy, the Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education 
is moving ahead with a plan to contain pesticide-contaminated soil on 
property on Ellisdale Road and then build a middle school there.

At a board meeting Wednesday, health and environmental professionals 
testifying for the board said the plan is safe. The idea is to move soil 
contaminated with agricultural pesticides to one place on the 46-acre 
Ellisdale Road site, cap it with clean soil and then pave it over for a 
parking lot at an estimated cost of $950,000.

"As long as the cap remains, there is no exposure," said township Health 
Officer Margaret B. Jahn.

Dozens of residents, among about 200 who attended the board meeting, 
testified for and against the plan.

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For entire article, see
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060630/NEWS01/606300418/1004
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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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