[CPEO-BIF] Board rejects Kimberton school plan, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[The rejected school site is adjacent to a Superfund site, and there is 
significant deep-aquifer TCE contamination, but there is no evident 
pathway. I personally evaluated the vapor intrusion study, and if the 
data is correct there is no current potential for vapor intrusion. 
Furthermore, U.S. EPA has concluded that the future conditions will not 
create such a pathway. Still, parents and teachers successfully urged 
the school board to reject the site. - LS]

Chesco board KOs Kimberton school near Superfund site

By WILLIAM BENDER
Philadelphia Daily News
June 20, 2008


The Phoenixville Area School Board has decided that building a grade 
school next to a Superfund waste site isn't such a great idea after all.

It voted last night to abandon the Chester County school district's 
controversial plan to build the 650-student elementary school next to 
the federal hazardous-waste site.

By a 6-2 tally, the board adopted a last-minute resolution to reject all 
construction bids for the $19 million Kimberton Elementary School and to 
search for greener - and cleaner - pastures.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080620_Chesco_board_KOs_Kimberton_school_near_Superfund_site.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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