[CPEO-BIF] TCE at Jorge Alvarez High School (Gorham Silver site), Providence, Rhode Island

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Elevated TCE levels found in Providence classroom

by Melanie DaSilva
WPRI TV-12 News (Providence, RI)
October 4, 2023

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A classroom at Jorge Alvarez High School has been temporarily closed due to high levels of trichloroethylene (TCE) being detected in the air.

The school was built on the site of a former silver factory, and specific locations in the building are tested each month.

In an email sent to parents on Sunday, Superintendent Javier Montañez and Principal Nathan Biah said TCE was found in classroom 116.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.wpri.com/health/elevated-tce-levels-found-in-providence-classroom/

I wrote about this site in 2006. See
http://cpeo.org/pubs/ProvidenceSchools.pdf

Lenny

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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