[CPEO-BIF] Keith Middle School, etc., New Bedford, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

YOUR VIEW: Demand answers on contamination

Letter by EDDIE L. JOHNSON
CLEAN, the Citizens Leading Environmental Action Network
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA)
May 20, 2009

On May 14, a motion on the New Bedford City Council agenda, sponsored by 
Councilor-at-large Brian Gomes and supported by all of the city 
councilors, which makes the motion veto-proof, requested that the 
Committee on Appointments and Briefings meet with Lawrence Oliveira, 
chief administrator for finance and operations for the School 
Department, and the contractor who is responsible for building Keith 
Middle School. The purpose of the meeting is to have the contractor 
explain falling mortar, cracks inside the building and water damage, and 
how they will be addressed.

As active environmentalists deeply and consistently committed to the 
remediation and removal of all very unsafe and unhealthy toxic 
contamination at Keith Middle School, New Bedford High, six or more 
contaminated homes purchased by the city of New Bedford, the Paul Walsh 
Athletic Complex, Andre McCoy Sports Complex, church-owned properties of 
Bethel AME and the Portuguese Pentecostal Church on Hathaway Boulevard 
and other contaminated hot spots, we give sincere appreciation and 
applause to Councilor Gomes and his colleagues on the City Council who 
supported the motion.

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For the entire letter, see
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090520/OPINION/905200323/-1/OPINION02

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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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