[CPEO-BIF] Hamlet Avenue middle school, Woonsocket, Rhode Island

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Hamlet middle school site polluted

By RUSS OLIVO
Woonsocket Call (RI)
July 17, 2007


WOONSOCKET - Consultants have identified three different kinds of 
environmental pollution at the proposed Hamlet Avenue middle school site 
that will have to be cleaned up to the satisfaction of the state 
Department of Environmental Management (DEM) before construction can 
begin, officials say.

Oil from leaking underground fuel tanks, industrial chemicals and prior 
deposits of "urban fill" have tainted the soil at the mill site, 
according to Fuss & O'Neill, the city's consulting engineers.

...

Because the middle school construction project is on such a tight 
schedule, the city is in the odd position of applying for cleanup 
permits before it even knows whether there will be money available for 
the work - or new middle schools, for that matter.

A citywide voter referendum is set for Aug. 14 to decide whether to 
borrow $74 million for the project, of which the city envisions spending 
about $4 million for the cleanup or - as it is known in the jargon of 
environmental regulators - site remediation.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.woonsocketcall.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18593230&BRD=1712&PAG=461&dept_id=24361&rfi=6

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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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