[CPEO-BIF] Parker Street Dump site, New Bedford , Masssachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic legacy: Parker Street cleanup, 5 years in, nearing $13 million 
price tag

By Jack Spillane
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA)
May 16, 2010

Five years after the Environmental Protection Agency approved the 
construction of the Keith Middle School in New Bedford, the cleanup, or 
"remediation" of the adjacent site of the Parker Street Waste Site is 
well under way.

Though much remains to be done, much has been done already.

The goal, according to the EPA, is to make the site safe enough to be 
used not only by the New Bedford school system, but also by neighborhood 
residents, businesses and those using the state skating rink.

Between the 1930S and 1950s, the city, across more than 40 acres of 
wooded swamp land between Oak Grove Cemetery and Summit Street, operated 
what was called the "Parker Street Dump."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100516/NEWS/5160346

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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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