From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Sun, 3 Jun 2018 16:14:36 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] TCE vapors at Northport Middle School, Suffolk County, New York |
7 On Your Side Investigates: Hazardous chemicals stored below Long Island school's classrooms By Danielle Leigh WABC TV-7 News (New York, NY) May 30, 2018 NORTHPORT, Suffolk County -- Renovations are set to begin this summer at a middle school with years of documented air quality concerns in the Northport-East Northport Union Free School District. The improvements focused on the k-wing of Northport Middle School in Suffolk County are intended in part to address remediation of volatile organic compounds detected at levels above a typical New York home and, at times, above New York State Health guidelines. Superintendent Robert Banzer ordered the k-wing of the school closed in 2017 after complaints about a "persistent smell" revealed the district had been storing hazardous chemicals and, occasionally, a vehicle in a warehouse below classrooms. Among the potential toxins detected in the classrooms was cancer-causing trichloroethylene (TCE) at levels above New York State health guidelines. … For the entire article, see http://abc7ny.com/education/7-on-your-side-hazardous-chemicals-stored-below-classrooms/3540394/ -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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