[CPEO-BIF] Bronx (NY) - Mott Haven schools proposal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic school site up for Council approval

by Patrick Arden
Metro New York
December 5, 2006

SOUTH BRONX - The city has fast tracked a plan to build four new schools 
on contaminated land in Mott Haven, despite community health concerns.

The seven-acre site at E. 153rd Street and Concourse Village West has 
hosted a railyard, a laundry, a service station and a manufactured gas 
plant, leaving behind mercury and other harmful toxins. The city 
allocated $30 million for the clean- up, which involves soil removal, 
among other remedies.

An alarm was sounded in September by parents and teachers at P.S. 156, a 
school built on stilts next to the site.

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For the entire article, see
http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Toxic_school_site_up_for_Council_approval/5987.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
http://www.cpeo.org

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