[CPEO-BIF] Corpus Christi, Texas townhomes

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Land for public housing project contaminated, report shows
D.N. Leathers Townhomes near T.C. Ayers Park was expected to be started

By Denise Malan
Corpus Christi Caller Times (TX)
September 3, 2009

CORPUS CHRISTI - An environmental group is calling for further studies 
after a Corpus Christi Housing Authority report showed contaminated 
groundwater and soil at the site of a proposed housing project.

Suzie Canales, executive director of Citizens for Environmental Justice, 
said the report is the reason the Housing Authority has not started a 
complex called D.N. Leathers Townhomes near T.C. Ayers Park on the 
Northside.

The Housing Authority met with neighbors in December about the project, 
and residents have been curious why no construction has started, Canales 
said. But officials had not released results of the report.

"We find it disturbing that the Housing Authority did not come to the 
community to tell them these results," said Canales, who had a news 
conference Thursday to release the report.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.caller.com/news/2009/sep/03/land-for-public-housing-project-contaminated/


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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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