[CPEO-BIF] Dirty fill at Rhode Island highway project

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State Orders 6-10 Developer to Remove Toxic Fill

By TIM FAULKNER
ecoRI News (RI)
September 21, 2020


PROVIDENCE - The primary developer of the 6-10 Connector highway project must remove a pile of fill and all other soil tainted with hazardous waste within the extensive construction site.

The recent directive came after heavy-equipment operators complained of excessive dust at worksites for the $410 million redevelopment project west of downtown. When pleas for help weren’t addressed by the developer and state agencies, the union for those workers launched its own investigation.

A test paid for by the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 57 found the material contained two times the acceptable levels of carcinogenic aromatic hydrocarbons and four times the acceptable levels of benzo(a)pyrene, another carcinogen.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.ecori.org/pollution-contamination/2020/9/16/state-orders-6-10-developer-to-remove-toxic-fill

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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