[CPEO-BIF] "Former Students Demand Health Monitoring Following Exposure To Toxic Bronx School Building"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former Students Demand Health Monitoring Following Exposure To Toxic  
Bronx School Building

By Michael Herzenberg
NY1
July 1, 2013

Dozens of staff members, former students and families of students in  
a Bronx elementary school said there should be more health monitoring  
after they learned Monday of consequences from exposure to an  
airborne toxin in their former school building.

The building at 3200 Jerome Avenue housed Bronx New School, or P.S.  
51X, from 1993 to 2011, serving kindergarten through fifth grade. At  
that time, about 2,900 staff and students used the facility.

The Department Of Education closed the school in June 2011, after  
officials found earlier that year levels of trichloroethylene (TCE)  
in the air in the building that were 10 times the state safety limit.


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For the entire story, see
http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/184827/former-students-demand- 
health-monitoring-following-exposure-to-toxic-bronx-school-building

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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
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