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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA hopes Keith meeting will clear the air

By PHIL DEVITT
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA)
August 17, 2009

NEW BEDFORD - Amid public concern - and plenty of confusion - regarding 
the cleanup of contaminated soil near Keith Middle School, the 
Environmental Protection Agency is planning a community meeting to 
clarify its role.

Scheduled for September, although no date has been set, the meeting will 
allow the EPA, along with the Department of Environmental Protection and 
city officials, to answer questions about the property, the site of a 
former toxic burn dump.

The EPA announced the meeting in a letter to Eddie Johnson, president of 
Citizens Leading Environmental Action Network, or CLEAN. Johnson had 
written to the EPA, frustrated by the lack of a definitive "major plan" 
for the 104 contaminated acres, which sit near homes, churches, Keith 
Middle School and New Bedford High School.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009908170312

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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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