[CPEO-BIF] "Clean up efforts continue at Elmira High School, " Elmira, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Clean up efforts continue at Elmira High School; here's what you should know

by Thomas Fiery Pudney
Elmira Star-Gazette, NY
June 20, 2019

The New York state departments of Health and Environmental Conservation hosted an information session Wednesday evening regarding the ongoing remediation work being carried out at Elmira High School.

The current focus is on the deep soil remediation that was not completed during the 2017 remediation efforts.

Elmira High School, originally opened in 1979 as Southside High School, is now a brownfield site due to contamination from former industrial use of the site. It wasn't until decades after the school opened that concerns over contamination arose. 

For that reason, the DEC and DOH have been holding public outreach sessions as each new phase of the remediation projects take shape and are implemented. 


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For the entire article, see
https://www.stargazette.com/story/news/local/2019/06/19/doh-dec-offer-update-elmira-high-contamination/1500969001/

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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>
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