2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 16 Nov 2006 18:39:07 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] New Jersey schools
 
Contamination fouls school construction plans
Industrial sites continue to present obstacles for Trenton officials

BY ROSE Y. COLÓN
Trenton Times
November 15, 2006

TRENTON -- No one ever said building schools in urban areas was easy.

Unlike suburban school districts, where large tracts of undeveloped land are available to build schools, urban districts must make due with properties that many times are tainted with contaminated soil or groundwater due to prior industrial use.

The environmental challenges of building schools in Trenton became evident this week when school officials discussed the future of the Trenton Early Childhood Center and the Roebling School.

Jerry Murphy, chief operating officer of the state's Schools Construction Corp., told city school officials that soil and groundwater contamination pose a challenge to moving forward with the city's first preschool center and have delayed the Roebling project.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-2/116356765338780.xml?times?nxt&coll=5
or http://www.nj.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-2/116356765338780.xml&coll=5


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