[CPEO-BIF] South Hill Elementary School, Ithaca, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

State insists S. Hill school's air is safe for kids

By Krisy Gashler
Ithaca Journal (NY)
November 6, 2007

ITHACA - Representatives from the state Departments of Environmental 
Conservation, Health and Education reaffirmed their belief that South 
Hill Elementary School is safe and no further testing is needed at a 
public meeting at the school Monday night.

Some parents, elected officials and environmental activists at the 
meeting continued to insist that further testing of classroom air must 
occur before they will feel safe.

Karen Cahill, environmental engineer with the DEC, and Susan Shearer, 
assistant sanitary engineer with the Department of Health, presented the 
methods and results of testing for volatile organic compounds at South 
Hill Elementary School this summer.

South Hill Elementary underwent a series of tests for the compounds, 
including trichloroethylene or TCE, which was used by Morse Chain, the 
previous owner of Emerson Power Transmission until the late 1970s. 
Emerson, a state Superfund site, sits across Aurora Street from South 
Hill Elementary. TCE is considered a likely carcinogen.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071106/NEWS01/711060344/1002

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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