[CPEO-MEF] DUMP SITES: Honolulu (HI) high school on old Navy dump site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Radford High track off limits because of hazardous waste contamination

By Tim Sakahara
HawaiiNewsNow
April 2, 2014

HONOLULU - Radford High School's athletic field is the focus of a  
toxic waste cleanup. Although state health officials say there is no  
risk to students, staff or parents.

It wasn't exactly the way Radford High School wanted to kickoff  
construction of its new track, but serious soil contamination has  
sidelined work at the facility.

Radford has been trying to get a new track for 20 plus years. Now  
that construction started on the $2.2 million job it's already  
stopped because of a significant amount of lead, arsenic, cadmium and  
mercury found underground.

...

The area used to be a crater, but the military bulldozed it and made  
it a dump site. Later Radford was built in the 1950's. The football  
and baseball fields were inside that landfill area.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/25146938/soil-contaminants-halt- 
radford-high-track-and-field-renovation

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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