[CPEO-BIF] Demolition next to Soundview High School (Bronx, NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

High School fears building being torn down next-door will spread its toxins

BY DAN GESSLEIN
New York Daily News
September 4, 2007

Students returning to class at the Soundview Academy will be learning 
their Bronx ABC's: asbestos, benzene and carcinogens.

The former defense contractor plant next-door to the high school is 
being torn down, and residents are fearful of what is being released 
into the air.

For the past two weeks, Soundview residents have been watching and 
videotaping workers in protective suits and respirators tearing apart 
the roof of the former Loral Electronics manufacturing building, at 825 
Bronx River Ave., in the middle of the night - with little evidence of 
environmental precautions.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/bronx/2007/09/04/2007-09-04_high_school_fears_building_being_torn_do.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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