[CPEO-BIF] Azalea Elementary School, St. Petersburg, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Expert Says Pinellas School Near Raytheon Has Safe Air

By GALINA TISHCHENKO
Tampa Tribune/News Channel 8 (FL)
August 12, 2008

The air is safe at a St. Petersburg elementary school on the fringe of a 
groundwater pollution plume that originated on the site of a Raytheon 
defense plant, according to air quality tests conducted for the Pinellas 
County School District and Raytheon.

The consultant for Azalea Elementary, Steve Mlynarek of the University 
of South Florida, tested three classrooms, the lunchroom, a break room, 
the playground and cafeteria on Aug. 4. Raytheon tested the same areas a 
week earlier.

Both sets of tests detected four chemicals in the air: chloromethane, 
toluene, benzene and 1,2-dichloroethane. The experts said the discovery 
was unrelated to the groundwater pollution spreading from Raytheon.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/aug/12/me-expert-says-school-near-raytheon-has-safe-air/

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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
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