[CPEO-BIF] Middle school, Upper Freehold, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This is an example where opposition to using a contaminated site 
resulted in a cleaner site being selected for a new middle school in 
Freehold, New Jersey.]

Soil samples clean, land cost set, Breza ready to go
Voters to decide on $13.2M referendum on April 17

BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP
Allentown Examiner (NJ)
April 5, 2005

The Upper Freehold Regional School District has good news and more good 
news.

According to Board of Education President Joseph Stampe, the board has 
not only received information that soil at the proposed middle school 
site on Breza Road has tested below the state's residential standards 
for contamination, but it has also signed a nonbinding agreement with 
the property owner for a purchase price of $5.1 million.

In a phone interview on Tuesday morning, Stampe said the $5.1 million 
price for the 118-acre property off Route 524 is "well within" the 
budget of the proposed $13.2 million referendum, which Upper Freehold 
and Allentown residents will vote on during the April 17 Board of 
Education election.

...

For the entire article, see
http://examiner.gmnews.com/news/2007/0405/Front_Page/056.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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