[CPEO-BIF] Olod Bronx New School (New York) "significant threat to public health"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

State warns city: school site is toxic

By Sarina Trangle
Riverdale Press (NY)
May 9, 2012

The Bronx New School, PS 51's old building has been deemed a  
"significant threat to public health" by state agencies.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation sent out  
a notification on May 1 announcing that the 18,200-square-foot  
building at 3200 Jerome Ave. sits on grounds that contain dangerous  
levels of two carcinogens - Trichloroethylene (TCE) and  
Tetrachloroethylene (PCE).

The site where the school had been located since 1993 has been  
accepted into the Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP), a state  
initiative designed to help property owners redevelop contaminated  
sites.

...

For the entire article, see
http://riverdalepress.com/stories/State-warns-city-school-site-is- 
toxic,50304

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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