[CPEO-BIF] Martin Luther King Jr.- Jefferson School, Trenton, New Jersesy

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

New contamination woes delay school
City K-8 facility may not open until 2010

BY ROSE Y. COLÓN
Trenton Times (NJ)
July 26, 2007

TRENTON -- Had things gone according to plan, children and teachers 
would be walking the halls of a brand new Martin Luther King Jr.- 
Jefferson School this fall.

Already three years behind schedule, the 800-student school has yet to 
be built and may not even open until 2010, state officials said yesterday.

Although the removal of 36,000 tons of contaminated material used in the 
school's foundation caused major delays in construction and resulted in 
the demolition of the partly-built school last year, a decision by the 
city school board has prompted further delays.

Troubled by a batch of polluted soil that existed on the site prior to 
the school construction in 2004, board members decided this week to 
remove that soil as well, instead of being capped with concrete, which 
the state Schools Construction Corp proposed.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/timesoftrenton/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-3/118542273134720.xml&coll=5

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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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