[CPEO-BIF] Franklin, New Jersey - after Kiddie Kollege

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Franklin to oversee problem sites

By MEG HUELSMAN
South Jersey Courier-Post (NJ)
April 4, 2007

FRANKLIN - Nearly nine months after a Station Road day care center that 
showed elevated levels of mercury contamination closed its doors, the 
township committee is taking steps to make sure the Kiddie Kollege 
nightmare does not happen again.

A seven-member subcommittee of the township Environmental Commission has 
been created to keep tabs on contaminated or potentially hazardous 
properties. The committee will oversee contaminated sites, keep records 
and look into any suspicious properties.

There are also plans to hire a township patrolman to head the newly 
formed office of emergency management. The officer would be responsible 
for maintaining records of contaminated sites and informing different 
departments about questionable properties.

The new officer should start this summer, Deputy Mayor Frank Scavelli 
said Tuesday.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070404/NEWS01/704040369/1006

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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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