[CPEO-BIF] "RCSD sues over contaminated St. Paul Street building, " Rochester, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

RCSD sues over contaminated St. Paul Street building

by Justin Murphy
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
December 28, 2018

The Rochester City School District sued its landlord at troubled 690 St. Paul St. this week over its alleged failure to address environmental and structural problems.

The lawsuit relates to a sequence of events beginning with the dumping of toxic chemicals more than a century ago and culminating last December, when students at Rochester Prep High School abandoned their sub-leased space in the building over fears of unsafe air and water. The district is further covering its bases by suing the charter school for breaking its sublease.

The eight-story building has been subject to oversight from the state Department of Environmental Conservation since 2009 due to the presence of trichloroethene, or TCE, an industrial solvent and likely carcinogen. The district has leased space from the owner, Genesee Valley Real Estate Co., since 2008; before that it housed a now-closed charter school whose employees often complained about headaches and breathing problems.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2018/12/28/rcsd-sues-landlord-690-st-paul-rochester-prep-tce/2423393002/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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