[CPEO-BIF] "Environmental sins of the past haunt Southern Tier [New York] communities"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental sins of the past haunt Southern Tier communities

by Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
March 2, 2018

In 1977, the Elmira School District paid one dollar for an abandoned industrial site on which to build a new high school.

Even at a buck, this was no bargain.

The property, brokered through the Southern Tier Economic Growth Agency, was polluted from more than a century of heavy industry. Yet another generation would pass with countless questions about health risks and exposure before officials took a closer look.

Recent testing at the school, on South Main Street, confirms pollution ignored long ago remain a very real problem today.

The story of Elmira High School is similar to thousands of sites statewide, including shopping centers, residential neighborhoods and municipal water districts.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/local/2018/03/01/environmental-sins-past-haunt-southern-tier-communities/1074489001/

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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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