2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 13 Nov 2007 22:01:50 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Mott Haven campus, the Bronx, New York
 
Toxic school 'bake sale'
Mott Haven groups want city to fund new study

by Patrick Arden
Metro New York
November 13, 2007

LOWER MANHATTAN. A card table was set up for a bake sale in front of 
City Hall yesterday, and 11 cupcakes carried price tags that were 
admittedly a little steep: $1,000 apiece.

It was the latest gambit by South Bronx community groups concerned over 
the Bloomberg administration's building of four new schools on a 
severely polluted site in Mott Haven.

Over the years, that seven-acre parcel had served a variety of 
industrial uses that left behind harmful contaminants. The state gave 
the go-ahead for the city's $30 million cleanup plan, which called for 
some soil removal but relied on the installation of engineering systems 
to contain and ventilate toxins.

...

For the entire article, see
http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Toxic_school_bake_sale/10719.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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