[CPEO-MEF] Removing alleged Navy waste from Norco (CA) school site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Soil removed from school site

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Sue Doyle
March 22, 2005

NORCO - Corona-Norco Unified School District has spent close to 
$1million to clean up soil allegedly contaminated by the Navy on 
property proposed for a new high school.

Arsenic, lead, dioxin and other contaminants were detected during a 2002 
soil analysis of the 6.5-acre property on Third Street, on the campus of 
Riverside Community College. The property is the future site of John F. 
Kennedy High School.

From 1947 through the early 1970s, the Navy operated an incinerator, 
landfill and burn pits on the property, generating waste, said Andrew 
Sterner, construction manager for the school district.

School officials are waiting for results from soil samples taken two 
weeks ago, after the last of 10,000 tons of contaminated dirt was hauled 
away March 10 to the Azusa Land Reclamation, a contaminated material 
processing center. The cleanup cost the district about $900,000.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailybulletin.com/Stories/0,1413,203~21481~2777185,00.html

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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
http://www.cpeo.org


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