[CPEO-MEF] Missile silos at Pennsylvania school

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former missile silos found safe in Chichester 

By MIKE BONNER 
Delaware County Times (Chester, PA)
June 28, 2005

UPPER CHICHESTER -- "A monumental day in the history of Chichester
schools" was how Chichester School Board Vice-President Ed Cardow
described the inspection Monday of three former missile silos located
beneath the parking lots of Hilltop Elementary School. 

"This is all part of the process to construct a new elementary school,"
said Cardow, standing on the site of the future building, a parking lot
located approximately 200 feet from the current school. A steel panel
that was bolted into the center of the lot had been removed, allowing
inspectors to place a ladder inside the opening, formerly an elevator
shaft used for carrying Nike missiles during the Cold War.


"We have to make sure it's environmentally safe," said Michael Golde,
superintendent of Chichester schools. "That's why it's a joint event
with representatives from the Department of Environmental Protection,
the Army Corps of Engineers, the district's own environmental group
(Environmental Control Systems, Inc.), our architect and construction
manager, maintenance and facilities people, and school board members and administration."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1675&dept_id=18178&newsid=14766856&PAG=461&rfi=9

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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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