[CPEO-BIF] "Board considers school site cleanup options, " Morgan Hill, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Board considers school site cleanup options

by Scott Forstner 
Morgan Hill Times (CA)
June 24, 2016


The building of brand new $20 million elementary school on a donated 10-acre plot in a scenic, affluent northeast Morgan Hill neighborhood comes with one major concern for local officials: high concentrations of a harmful pesticide in the soil.

District leaders are not taking the matter lightly, and have been working with environmental consultants to find the most effective way to cleanse the former farmland to make way for a ninth primary school to serve Morgan Hill’s ever growing student population.

One option being explored, called bioremediation, was used back in 2005 for that very reason and the initial results were effective. However, the toxicity levels returned when the soil was tested again 10 years later.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.morganhilltimes.com/news/schools/board-considers-school-site-cleanup-options/article_01e54f9c-3a60-11e6-a057-ff3fd0b4391c.html

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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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