[CPEO-BIF] "Contaminants discovered underneath Winston-Salem [North Carolina] charter school, " too

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contaminants discovered underneath Winston-Salem charter school

by Jordan Green 
Triad City Beat (NC)
March 11, 2015 

Carter G. Woodson Charter School opened in 1997. Hazel Mack, the school’s founder, is a former member of the Winston-Salem chapter of the Black Panther Party and an attorney with Legal Aid of North Carolina. She received the Julian T. Pierce Award for her efforts to defend low-income families from mortgage foreclosure and to restore subsidized housing for victims of Hurricane Floyd in eastern North Carolina.

About 60 percent of the school’s students are black and about 40 percent are Latino. More than 87 percent participate in the federal free- and reduced-lunch program, according to the school’s website, which also reported the school’s enrollment at 450 for the 2011-2012 school year.

In 2006, the school purchased additional property, where the middle school is now located. The site was originally developed as a cotton mill, Carol Jones Van Buren, a Charlotte lawyer representing the school with Harris, wrote to the state Division of Waste Management. Van Buren said the mill operated as Arista Mills and Southside Cotton Mill from 1895 through the 1960s. >From 1970 to 1988, she said, Western Electric and AT&T used the old mill building to manufacture circuit  boards, using a degreaser containing PCE and other chemicals.

Harris said when the school purchased the property no information about the contaminants was available.

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For the entire article, see
http://triad-city-beat.com/contaminants-discovered-underneath-winston-salem-charter-school/2/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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