2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 13 Aug 2006 02:38:37 -0000
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] New Jersey to review sites after "Day-Care Fiasco"
 
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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