[CPEO-BIF] Queen, NY toxic high school

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

School built on toxic chemical site - pols

BY JOHN LAUINGER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
September 21, 2007

Two Queens councilmen blasted the city's Education Department yesterday 
for failing to inform the community that the new Information Technology 
High School in Long Island City sits atop a toxic chemical plume.

Councilmen James Gennaro (D-Fresh Meadows) and Eric Gioia (D-Sunnyside) 
said the city never told the public that the school, which opened in 
2003, occupies a former metal-plating warehouse contaminated with lead 
and petrochemicals.

"When it comes to the health and safety of our children, never, ever can 
we cut any corners," Gioia said at a news conference outside the school. 
He and Gennaro found out about the plume after seeing a recent televised 
investigative report on it.

The city exploited a loophole to duck public scrutiny of the project, 
they said. Had the school been built by the city on city-owned land, a 
public review would have been mandatory.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/queens/2007/09/21/2007-09-21_school_built_on_toxic_chemical_site__pol.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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