[CPEO-BIF] New Jersey to review sites after "Day-Care Fiasco"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEP to review sites after day-care fiasco
Child center was at former thermometer facility

BY STEVE CHAMBERS
NEWARK STAR-LEDGER (NJ)
August 12, 2006

State environmental officials will inspect 1,846 sites previously 
removed from a list of contaminated properties, following a scandal in 
which one still-polluted site was converted into a day-care center.

Children had been attending school at the former thermometer factory in 
Gloucester County for two years when tests revealed dangerous levels of 
mercury in the air. Kiddie Kollege in Franklin Township was shuttered 
two weeks ago after tests by the state Department of Environmental 
Protection.

A lawyer for a dozen families who had 3- and 4-year-olds at the center 
said yesterday some children were testing at levels double what was 
considered safe for adults. Mercury can harm the ner vous system of 
young children, making them less able to think and learn.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1155371125323300.xml&coll=1
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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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