[CPEO-BIF] School at former Bausch & Lomb factory, Rochester, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rochester school board schedules session on toxin at school site

David Andreatta and Steve Orr
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle (NY)
July 3, 2009

The Rochester Board of Education has scheduled a special session to 
question state health and environmental officials about a 
factory-turned-schoolhouse whose owner has asked that it be declared a 
brownfield.

Board President Malik Evans stressed that the purpose of the meeting, 
slated for July 14 at 6 p.m. at the board's downtown headquarters, is to 
learn more about the toxins at the site and not to take action on the 
Rochester School District's future use of the building.

The district last year signed a 15-year lease on the building at 690 St. 
Paul St., a former Bausch & Lomb factory, where it temporarily housed 
School 33 this school year and plans to have School 14 and the new Dr. 
Walter Cooper Academy share space for the next few years


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For the entire article, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090703/NEWS01/907030331/1002/NEWS/Rochester+school+board+schedules+session+on+toxin+at+school+site

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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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