| From: | Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> |
| Date: | Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:01:34 -0700 (PDT) |
| Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
| Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Paden City, West Virginia school to be relocated due to PCE |
Classes at a West Virginia school will relocate over toxic groundwater fears Classes at a small northern West Virginia school will be relocated starting this fall, two years after the town’s contaminated groundwater was added to a national cleanup priority list By JOHN RABY Associated Press June 12, 2024 Classes at a small West Virginia school will be relocated this fall, two years after the town’s contaminated groundwater was added to a national cleanup priority list. Wetzel County Schools Superintendent Cassandra R. Porter announced the move Tuesday for students, faculty and staff at Paden City High School. They will relocate to existing schools in nearby New Martinsville when classes resume in August. “A safe learning environment for our students is fundamental and imperative,” Porter said in a letter to faculty and staff. In March 2022, federal environmental officials placed Paden City’s groundwater on the list of Superfund cleanup sites. Untreated groundwater contained the solvent tetrachloroethylene at levels higher than the federally allowed limit. … For the entire article, see https://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/groundwater-contamination-from-dry-cleaning-solvent-prompts-west-virginia-schools-relocation/article_2dd613f0-02e3-5eca-a464-8651dbd87ef6.html -- — 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 Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org) _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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