Old Amarillo AFB Landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

HPISD considers land near dormant landfill 

By JENNIFER WILSON
The Amarillo Globe-News (TX)
September 3, 2004

Talk real estate and three words come up: location, location, location.

Highland Park Independent School District soon may own 88 acres of land
south of the school. It's ideal for a new bus barn or ag barn, officials say.

It also is north of a dormant landfill. But school leaders said they
have studied the area for safety, and state and federal agencies
continue to monitor the land.

Highland Park trustees Tuesday night approved a motion to allow the
district's attorney and Superintendent Vicki Line to negotiate the
purchase of the 88.3-acre tract of land. The area is bordered by
Farm-to-Market Road 1912 on the east and the school on the north, she said.

Possible uses for the land, Line said, include the new bus and ag barns,
which will be built with money from the district's recent $5.2 million
bond election. Highland Park also could move an athletic field there,
she said.

But the property in question is adjacent to the landfill, which was used
by Amarillo Air Force Base, Line said.

...

for the entire article, see
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/090304/new_hpisdland.shtml
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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