[CPEO-BIF] Vapor Anxiety at the Hanes-Lowrance Middle School Campus, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Vapor Anxiety at the Hanes-Lowrance Middle School Campus, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Lenny Siegel

June, 2015

On January 24, 2015 the Winston-Salem Journal reported that the Hanes-Lowrance Middle School Campus, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sat above groundwater plumes of toxic chlorinated volatile organic compounds. The company responsible for the contamination, situated immediately across Indiana Avenue from the front of the school, had been addressing the contamination source for more than a decade. The disclosure ignited a firestorm of anxiety among parents who had no idea, until the news report, that hazardous substances underlay the campus. On February 10 the school board voted to close the school, despite evidence that indoor air contamination remained below North Carolina’s exposure standard.

To download the entire 10-page report, go to

http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/HaLo.pdf

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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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