2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

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

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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>
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