[CPEO-BIF] Northampton Community College (PA) "not threatened" by plume

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Study: Toxic plume harmless to Northampton Community College

By Dan Berrett
Pocono Record (PA)
March 1, 2010

A toxic plume underneath a former landfill lies less than a mile from 
the new campus of Northampton Community College, but it poses no evident 
threat to future students and staff, according to the college, an 
environmental study and a review of federal agency records.

"From everything we did before we bought the land for the campus, 
nothing points to our site ever having contaminated water under it," 
said Mark Culp, director of facilities and campus safety for NCC.

Concerns about the plume were stoked in a recent letter to the editor in 
the Pocono Record, which alleged that the plume had migrated under the 
new NCC site, and that the college had not done proper environmental 
testing before buying it.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100301/NEWS/3010317

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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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