From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | 26 Jan 2007 00:22:51 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Mott Haven school site report |
New York City is building four new schools on a former Bronx railyard
contaminated with semi-volatile organic compounds, gasoline-related
contaminants, chlorinated solvents, and other pollutants. On behalf of
the Bronx Committee for Toxic Free Schools, New York Lawyers for the
Public Interest (NYLPI) sought and received funding from the New York
City School Construction Authority (SCA) for an independent review of
its plans for cleanup and construction. NYLPI contracted with CPEO to
conduct the review, and CPEO executive director Lenny Siegel visited New
York January 3-5, 2007. CPEO’s report, authored by Siegel and Peter M.
Strauss, found that the investigation and remedial planning for the Mott
Haven site have been conducted professionally, and furthermore, that the
SCA has committed to spending substantial resources on remedial action.
However, CPEO recommended that the SCA excavate additional toxic
hotspots, and it proposed that long-term management of the site be
strengthened to protect better the health and well-being of
schoolchildren and others who will be using the site, as well as the
occupants of two, existing adjacent schools.
To download the full 18-page, 1.9 MB report as a PDF file, go to http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/Mott-Haven.pdf -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/brownfields | |
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