[CPEO-BIF] Keith School, New Bedford, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Woes part of troubling trend
Public role key to safe siting, officials say

By Jack Spillane
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA)
August 8, 2006

Third of three parts

In 2001, the city of Providence built an elementary school and a middle 
school on its former municipal dump just seven months from the day it 
announced the plans.

The siting and building process in Providence - over the objection of 
the adjacent neighborhoods - was so expedited that it led to a new law 
slowing the process down.

The scenario has not been dramatically different for the new Keith 
Middle School in New Bedford, built on a PCB-contaminated soccer field.

To gain a spot on the state's school funding reimbursement list, school 
officials moved quickly to approve the site for Keith - voting for it on 
Feb. 12, 2001, just four days after the public forum.


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For the entire article and links to earlier and related stories, go to
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/08-06/08-08-06/02topstories.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
http://www.cpeo.org

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