[CPEO-BIF] Contamination delays school construction in Providence (RI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

District needs classrooms for 300 students

Delays in plans to build a school off Adelaide Avenue mean the School
Department has to scramble to find room to accommodate ninth graders.


BY KAREN A. DAVIS
Providence Journal 
April 28, 2005


PROVIDENCE -- Environmental concern about the site of a proposed school
off Adelaide Avenue has delayed construction and left school
administrators wondering where they will find seats for about 300 high
school students this fall.

The fate of the proposed 450-pupil school and the environmental status
of the site will be discussed Monday at a 7 p.m. public hearing at the
Stop & Shop community room, 333 Adelaide Ave. The meeting is the first
of two public hearings scheduled so city officials can present the
results of an environmental investigation of the site and plans to clean
up the contaminated soil. The site was once part of the Gorham
Manufacturing complex.

City officials had hoped to break ground at the beginning of this month
and have the school completed in time for the start of school in August.

But the state Department of Environmental Management has not yet given
approval for using the site , which is contaminated by metals, lead and
chemicals from manufacturing.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.projo.com/education/content/projo_20050428_psite28.243f392.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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