[CPEO-BIF] Proposed high school site, Buncombe County, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Buncombe School system looking into contamination issues at site of  
proposed new high school

By Jake Frankel
Mountain Xpress (NC)
August 3, 2012


The Buncombe County Board of Education voted unanimously Aug. 2 to  
direct staff to consider doing an independent study of hazardous- 
waste contamination at school system's administrative offices at 175  
Bingham Road - site of the former Square D plant in the Emma  
neighborhood.

The property is being considered for a new Science, Technology,  
Engineering and Math (STEM) themed high school. The building was  
purchased by the school system more than 20 years ago from Square D,  
which manufactured electronic components. In the mid–1990s, soil and  
ground water on the site were found to be contaminated with  
petroleum, PCE, TCE and chloroform. The site remains on the  
Department of Environment and Natural Resources list of inactive  
hazardous-waste sites.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mountainx.com/article/44703/Buncombe-School-system-looking- 
into-contamination-issues-at-site-of-proposed-new-high-school

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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