[CPEO-BIF] Phoenix, Arizona school rejects wastewater pipeline

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Valley elementary school chooses students' health over money

By Steve Kuzj
ABC 15 News (Phoenix, AZ)
June 12, 2012

PHOENIX - A Valley school district had to decide between money and  
ensuring their students' health 100 percent.

Freescale Semiconductor offered Brunsun-Lee Elementary School $20,000  
a year to build a waste-water pipe underneath their elementary school.

The waste-water the pipe would carry is contaminated with a very  
dangerous chemical.

Experts say the pipe would pose almost no risk, but worried parents  
argued if the proposed pipe near 50th Street and McDowell Road in  
Phoenix were to spring a leak, their children could get sick.

At a Balsz Elementary School board meeting Tuesday, board members  
agreed with parents.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/ 
valley-elementary-school-chooses-students-health-over-money

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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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