[CPEO-BIF] Keith Middle School-area residences, New Bedford, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City aims to take ownership of PCB contaminated homes

By CHARIS ANDERSON and JOE COHEN
New Bedford Standard-Times
June 11, 2008

NEW BEDFORD - The city is planning to take ownership of up to six 
private homes near the Keith Middle School because the properties are so 
contaminated with pollutants that officials believe they are unsafe for 
residential use.

The assessed values range from $220,000 to $320,000. The city will not 
use its own funds for the property takings, which will be part of the 
extended Keith Middle School environmental remediation, overseen by the 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

There is no known danger to other property owners, and taking the six 
properties should resolve the issue, Mayor Scott W. Lang said.

Mayor Lang said this is another phase in addressing the failure of the 
previous administration headed by Mayor Frederick M. Kalisz Jr., which 
did not heed warnings — including those from the EPA — about building 
the new Keith Middle School on the Hathaway Boulevard site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080611/NEWS/806110350

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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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