[CPEO-BIF] "Yuba River Charter breaks ground on new campus, " Grass Valley, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Yuba River Charter breaks ground on new campus

by Stephen Roberson
The Union (Western Nevada County, CA_
March 30, 2017


The nine-year wait is over.

The 23-year-old Yuba River Charter School, which currently uses the old Nevada City Elementary School campus, broke ground on Thursday on a new $9.5 million, 22,575 square-foot campus on 15 acres at Rough and Ready Highway and Adam Avenue.

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While beautiful, the land was once an environmental headache.

The site of the old Grass Valley burn dump, the school received a $600 [?] brownfield program grant from the EPA to remove toxic lead waste. The cleanup project cost about $1 million, but it has its advantages.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/yuba-river-charter-breaks-ground-on-new-campus/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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