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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mercury Clean-Up Near Elementary School Will Go Forward
Parents are still weary of the impacts of a mercury clean-up on children at a nearby school. 

By Sydney Pereira 
Tribeca, NY Patch
June 26, 2019

SOUTH STREET SEAPORT, NY - The Department of Environmental Conservation gave developers the greenlight to clean-up a controversial mercury site across the street from an elementary school Tuesday.

The department announced Tuesday it accepted what's known as a brownfield application for the site, located at 250 Water St. - which has sparked intense scrutiny from parents at a nearby school who fear the clean-up could exposure children to toxins. 

The current parking lot was historically the site of thermometer factories and an underground gas tank. Remnants of mercury were made public in January.

Parents slammed the brownfield's approval - demanding the Department of Environmental Conservation and local politicians provide a grant for neighbors to hire an independent engineer to work with the ground founded amid the controversy, Children First.

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For the entire article, see
https://patch.com/new-york/downtown-nyc/mercury-clean-nearby-elementary-school-will-go-forward

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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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