[CPEO-BIF] General Chemical and Wilson School, Framingham, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup halted, but officials say Framingham's Wilson School is safe

By Dan McDonald
MetroWest Daily News (MA)
January 28, 2010

FRAMINGHAM - The cleanup effort at and around General Chemical, a Leland 
Street hazardous waste transfer station that is the source of 
groundwater contamination, is at a standstill.

Even so, town officials say, the contamination poses no danger to 
neighbors or the adjacent Woodrow Wilson School.

That's what town officials, engineers, and General Chemical told a group 
of more than two dozen people gathered inside the school last night for 
a Board of Health..

Solvents like trichloroethylene have tainted the groundwater under and 
around the Leland Street site since the 1960s or 1970s.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x1685422131/Cleanup-halted-but-officials-say-Framinghams-Wilson-School-is-safe

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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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