[CPEO-BIF] Hamlet Avenue schools, Woonsocket, Rhode Island

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Schools site owner to help pay cleanup costs

By Tatiana Pina
Providence Journal (RI)
December 7, 2007


WOONSOCKET - So much transpired yesterday regarding the cost of building
two schools on Hamlet Avenue and the cost of cleaning up contamination
that by the time Director of Planning and Development Joel Mathews met
again last night with the Building Committee, School Committee and City
Council much of the information he had previously given out had changed.

And this time the news was better.

Wednesday Mathews broke the news to the Building Committee that the
$74-million school project was increasing to $80 million because of
delays in getting the project started and an unforeseen cost of
remediation. Contamination from a portion of the ACS property where one
of the schools is planned is percolating through the ground and
migrating to the nearby Blackstone River. The city would be responsible
for remediation costs, which are unknown.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.projo.com/ri/woonsocket/content/NO_WOONSOCKET_SCHOOLMEET7_12-07-07_AH85T4J_v13.27da051.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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