[CPEO-BIF] Camden, New Jersey school site

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Camden school site criticized as unsafe

By MATT KATZ
Courier-Post (NJ)
December 10, 2007

CAMDEN

City activists and state environmentalists want to halt construction of
a $37.6 million school being built on a former landfill because they
don't believe it is safe for the young, disabled students who will
attend there.

The Pine Street site contains dangerously high levels of cancer-causing
chemicals such as arsenic, and is "patently unsuitable to a school,"
said Bill Wolfe, state director of Public Employees for Environmental
Responsibility and a former state Department of Environmental Protection
staffer.

Opponents want construction stopped immediately. They demand a more
thorough cleanup and they're asking for medical tests of those who
attended or worked at schools on the site from 1977 to 2003.

But as walls continue to go up on the new Early Childhood Development
Center -- which will serve pre-K and kindergarten students, many of whom
are disabled -- officials insist the site is safe.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071210/NEWS01/712100338/1006/news01

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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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