[CPEO-BIF] Roberts Avenue elementary school, Danbury, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Update: Dangerous chemicals found at Roberts Avenue School site
Contaminants may have spread to homes in area

By Robert Miller
Danbury News-Times (CT)
June 20, 2008


DANBURY -- Fill dumped 50 years ago at the Osborne Street field, where 
the replacement for Roberts Avenue elementary school is being built -- 
has left the site contaminated with lead, mercury, arsenic and other 
chemical compounds that can cause cancer.

It's the second problem with contaminated soil the city has discovered 
in about a week. Last Friday it closed the soccer field at Rogers Park 
for the same reason.

...

The city broke ground on the new $19 million elementary school in August 
2007, and Boughton said by fall the contractors on the site began 
noticing differences in the soil they were digging up.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newstimes.com/ci_9633815

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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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