[CPEO-BIF] High school planned for Bridgeport, Connecticut GE site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxins aside, former GE site slated for new high school

Linda Conner Lambeck
Greenwich Time (CT)
June 22, 2013

BRIDGEPORT -- For half a century, General Electric manufactured small  
motors and various electrical devices at its factory on 77 acres on  
the city's East Side. Before that, Remington Arms made rifles on the  
property.

Now, all that remains of the city's manufacturing past on the site  
are industrial contaminants, including arsenic, lead and petroleum- 
based pollutants.

It might seem surprising then that the city is considering the  
property as the location for a new Harding High School, but some  
experts say that once cleanup is complete, the site will be safe  
enough for children.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Toxins-aside-former-GE- 
site-slated-for-new-high-4616510.php


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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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