2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 1 Sep 2006 16:39:37 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Woonsocket (RI) school site
 
Hamlet Avenue site eyed for 2 new schools

Experts will evaluate the 20-acre property -- which needs a massive cleanup -- and report late next month to the Building Committee.


BY CYNTHIA NEEDHAM Providence Journal August 31, 2006

WOONSOCKET -- The city is considering an eleventh-hour proposal to build two new middle schools at the Hamlet Avenue mill complex that twice has been ravaged by fires in recent years.

The latest plan would call for tearing down all remaining buildings at the 20-acre site and constructing the two schools to form a middle school campus.

City officials say the site emerged as a last-minute alternative when a long-stalled deal that would have seen a light industrial and office space park on the Hamlet Avenue site began to look as though it might fall apart.

...

Mathews acknowledges that for a site to be used for education purposes, the cleanup standards are much higher than if the area were to be used as, say, a parking lot, but he emphasized that the Hamlet complex does not appear any more contaminated than other former mills. It's just that at 20 acres, it is bigger than most mill sites, which could drive up cleanup costs.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.projo.com/ri/woonsocket/content/projo_20060831_wms31.31f0255.html
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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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