[CPEO-BIF] Clifton, New Jersey high school

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Safety testing lax on new school sites

BY JEFF PILLETS
The Record (NJ)
May 19, 2008

Nearly four years ago, Clifton voters approved an $11 million plan to 
convert an old industrial building into classrooms for 500 high school 
students.

They hadn't been told that groundwater on the 3-acre site had excessive 
levels of pesticides, nor that arsenic and other poisons were present at 
elevated levels and that other dangerous organic compounds had seeped 
into the ground just outside the building's rear entrance.

A review of the controversial project by The Record reveals that Clifton 
school officials recommended the property to voters without doing a 
single environmental test or obtaining a sign-off from state 
environmental regulators.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/environment/environmentnews/Clifton_school_site_lacks_test_for_pesticides.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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