[CPEO-BIF] East Baltimore demolition dust

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Making a science of destruction
Group managing razing of homes for East Baltimore technology park uses 
Hopkins research to minimize release of hazardous substances

By Brent Jones
Baltimore Sun (MD)
August 21, 2006

As a piece of heavy machinery picked at rubble heaped where a block of 
rowhouses once stood, Robin Carter-Morton scanned the debris in search 
of public enemy No. 1 - dust.

To hold down the dust, the debris had been soaked with water, but it was 
drying out under the relentless summer sun, so Carter-Morton ordered 
workers to hose it down again.

"We're not going to get rid of all of the dust," said Carter-Morton. 
"But we do try to minimize it as much as possible."

Carter-Morton is overseeing the demolition of more than 500 vacant 
houses in East Baltimore near Johns Hopkins Hospital. There's a science 
to her work: The houses are being razed using strict guidelines based on 
research by Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health. The guidelines 
call for minimizing dust, lead emissions, rodent infestation and other 
potential hazards.

...

But officials with the Save Middle East Baltimore Action Committee, a 
community group that's voiced opposition to the demolition, tell a 
different story.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.demolition21aug21,0,6456094.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

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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>
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