[CPEO-BIF] Ithaca (NY) school sampling

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

South Hill testing: ICSD board made the right move

Editorial
Ithaca Journal (NY)
November 15, 2007

With all the controversy that has surrounded trichloroethylene (TCE) 
testing at South Hill Elementary School, it is nice to see one group 
make a forceful step forward.

The news that the Ithaca City School District Board of Education voted 
Tuesday to allocate $25,000 for testing for toxins at the school is 
welcomed. The district also made the right move in officially asking the 
state Department of Environmental Conservation to conduct further TCE 
testing at South Hill, even though state officials are being stubborn in 
their beliefs that no further testing is needed.

The first round of testing, done earlier this year, showed that TCE was 
detectable in samples outside the school and under the school's 
sub-slab, but the levels were not high enough to concern state 
officials. Community members have asked that another round of testing be 
conducted when school is in session during the winter heating season. 
But the state has refused to do another round of testing because it 
believes the school is OK.

...

For the entire editorial, see
http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071115/OPINION01/711150333

-- 


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