[CPEO-BIF] "Hanes Lowrance school closure might have been rash, " Winston-Salem, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Second look: Hanes Lowrance school closure might have been rash

by Jordan Green 
Triad City Beat (NC)
October 14, 2015 

An environmental contamination expert who consulted with locals after toxic chemicals were found beneath a Winston-Salem middle school says the school board’s decision to close the school was unwarranted.

Parents of Hanes Lowrance Middle School students were angry when Lenny Siegel, a national expert on environmental hazards, addressed them at SciWorks on a Monday night in early February.

Weeks earlier, they had learned from a newspaper exposé that the ground beneath the school was contaminated with tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, that can cause damage to the liver, kidneys and central nervous system. The chemical had migrated in the groundwater from the Kaba Ilco Corp. plant on Indiana Avenue on the city’s north side.

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For the entire article, see
http://triad-city-beat.com/second-look-hanes-lowrance-school-closure-might-have-been-rash/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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