[CPEO-BIF] Preschool, Chino, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

School planned on toxic land
Cleanup of arsenic, lead needed before Chino Early Education Center can 
be built

By Shelli DeRobertis
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (CA)
March 26, 2007

CHINO - The San Bernardino County superintendent of schools wants to 
build a new preschool on land contaminated with arsenic and lead.

The 24,000-square-foot Chino Early Education Center would be built on 
4.4 acres where two empty houses now sit at 4562 and 4578 Philadelphia St.

But first, the state Department of Toxic Substances Control must approve 
the removal of approximately 450 tons of arsenic-contaminated soil and 
nearly 45 tons of lead-contaminated soil that were found during an 
environmental investigation of the site.

Both contaminants posed "a potential unacceptable human health risk to 
future site occupants living there full time," according to a DTSC fact 
sheet issued this month.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_5528313

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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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