[CPEO-BIF] New Bedford High School, New Bedford, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Groundwater seeping into New Bedford high school contaminated

By CHARIS ANDERSON
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA)
February 2, 2010

NEW BEDFORD - The city is waiting for results of indoor air quality 
tests taken over the weekend at New Bedford High School after 
groundwater seeping into the school's boiler room showed elevated levels 
of contaminants.

The groundwater samples, taken last month from the boiler room and from 
monitoring wells, showed elevated concentrations of some volatile 
organic compounds, or VOCs; the nature of the contamination required the 
city to report the results, which it received Friday, to the state 
Department of Environmental Protection within 72 hours.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100202/NEWS/2020335

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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