[CPEO-BIF] San Pedro high school site, Los Angeles, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

School site 'clean' despite toxins
LAUSD: Study assesses soil at proposed campus on ex-Fort MacArthur land.

By Melissa Pamer
Torrance Daily Breeze (CA)
August 23, 2008

Despite finding elevated levels of arsenic and lead in the soil, Los 
Angeles Unified School District officials said last week that the San 
Pedro site of a proposed new magnet high school is safe.

At a public hearing Wednesday at which LAUSD officials discussed an 
8,400-page environmental report that was released two weeks earlier, 
consultants said that the toxins found at a 39-acre district-owned site 
on the Upper Reservation of the Army's former Fort MacArthur were 
comparatively benign.

"If you were to ask me if this site were contaminated - no," said Walt 
Grinyer, one of the district's environmental consultants with Geosyntec. 
"I've worked at a lot of military sites. Any base would take this site 
in a heartbeat compared to what they have."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_10288393

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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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