From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | 21 Aug 2007 05:37:55 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] New York City school leasing |
BATTLING OVER WHERE TO BUILD NEW SCHOOLSSome parents and activists differ with the city about how to determine that leased land is nontoxic enough for public school use. By Shreema Mehta City Limits WEEKLY (NY) August 20, 2007When Kate Acton's daughter developed respiratory problems within three months of beginning second grade at P.S. 65 in Queens, Acton could not figure out how it started. "But then she said, 'Whenever I'm in the school, 20 minutes or a half hour afterward I start feeling nauseous and have a hard time breathing.' I didn't think of the school" at first, said the mother of two, "but there's a lot of parents and children that are going through the same symptoms." Acton began protesting the school facilities after her daughter's doctor diagnosed asthma and suggested looking at the school for a possible cause. Though her daughter transferred out of the school in 2002, Acton remains vocal about school safety concerns, staying in touch with parents of children currently enrolled in the school. Acton, along with other parents and community organizations, alleges that the school, which opened in 1996, was built on land contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE) because of the site's previous use as an airplane parts factory. ... For the entire article, see http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/viewarticle.cfm?article_id=3391&content_type=1&media_type=3 -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/brownfields | |
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