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 -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/brownfields | |
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