[CPEO-BIF] New Jersey schools

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contamination fouls school construction plans
Industrial sites continue to present obstacles for Trenton officials

BY ROSE Y. COLÓN
Trenton Times
November 15, 2006

TRENTON -- No one ever said building schools in urban areas was easy.

Unlike suburban school districts, where large tracts of undeveloped land 
are available to build schools, urban districts must make due with 
properties that many times are tainted with contaminated soil or 
groundwater due to prior industrial use.

The environmental challenges of building schools in Trenton became 
evident this week when school officials discussed the future of the 
Trenton Early Childhood Center and the Roebling School.

Jerry Murphy, chief operating officer of the state's Schools 
Construction Corp., told city school officials that soil and groundwater 
contamination pose a challenge to moving forward with the city's first 
preschool center and have delayed the Roebling project.

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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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