[CPEO-BIF] King-Jefferson School, Trenton, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dirty soil removal at school to start
Cleanup at city site to last seven months; some Trenton residents are 
skeptical of the plan


BY ROSE Y. COLÓN
Trenton Times (NJ)
January 24, 2007

TRENTON -- Every weekday for the next seven months, nearly 50 trucks 
will rumble through Evans and Brunswick avenues hauling contaminated 
soil from the Martin Luther King Jr.-Jefferson School site to landfills 
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

The trucks are scheduled to transport 36,000 tons of material tainted 
with petroleum-based pollutants that was used in building the school's 
foundation, school officials announced yesterday.

Restoring the site is a massive undertaking on behalf of the state 
School's Construction Corp., an agency facing financial troubles for 
allegedly mismanaging millions of dollars.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/timesoftrenton/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1169615122179850.xml&coll=5

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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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