[CPEO-BIF] Clifton, New Jersey school site

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Planned school site to undergo more tests


By KAREN KELLER
HERALD NEWS (NJ)
December 11, 2007

CLIFTON -- The state is asking for new environmental tests before work
can begin to convert a former industrial site into a school, which the
district has slated to open in the fall of 2009.

The state has started to crack down on school environmental safety after
a day care center built on a former thermometer factory site was shut
down last year because of dangerously high levels of mercury.

According to a new law, schools may be built on potentially hazardous
properties only after a review by the Department of Health and Senior
Services and the Department of Environmental Protection.

The DEP determined recently that the Clifton location needs new tests
after a resident alerted the agency to environmental questions about the
site, said Larry Hajna, DEP spokesm

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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzNTkmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcyMzIzNTkmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk0

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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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