[CPEO-BIF] Cost of Ithaca (NY) school testing

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Taxpayers want ICSD reimbursed for South Hill testing

By Krisy Gashler
Ithaca Journal (NY)
February 14, 2008

A group of 90 citizens sent a letter to Gov. Eliot Spitzer Wednesday 
requesting that the state reimburse the Ithaca City School District for 
testing at South Hill Elementary school.

"Local taxpayers should not bear the cost of investigating toxic 
problems they did not generate. Please reimburse the Ithaca School 
District for its monitoring expenses from New York's site remediation 
fund," the letter states.

The school, which sits across South Aurora Street from Emerson Power 
Transmission, underwent three sets of testing last year for volatile 
organic compounds, including trichloroethene or TCE.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080214/NEWS01/802140335/1002

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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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