[CPEO-BIF] Woonsocket, Rhode Island middle school

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Middle schools win award for environmental reclamation

By Russ Olivo
Woonsocket Call (RI)
October 12, 2011

WOONSOCKET â Built on what was once a polluted, burned-out mill site  
overlooking the Blackstone River, the $80 million middle school  
campus has been named the winner of a prestigious national award  
recognizing the best environmental reclamation projects in the country.


The redevelopment trade publication Brownfield Journal chose the  
Hamlet Avenue campus as the 2011 winner of its âgold standardâ  
award in the social impact category.


...

For many years, the parcel was the site of a sprawling factory  
complex that included the Lafayette Mills and Florence Dye & Textile.  
Piece by piece, the city began taking possession of the land around  
2006, after the mill buildings were all but decimated by the two  
massive fires.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.woonsocketcall.com/node/3629

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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