[CPEO-BIF] Inwood schools, northern Manhattan, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Possible pollution in two Inwood schools

by Adam Garrett-Clark
Manhattan Times (NY)
November 3, 2009

Questions have been raised recently about the health of the land under a 
school building in Inwood that has been in operation since 1993. 
According to recent information released by the Department of 
Environmental Conservation, gasoline contamination was found 20 feet 
below the surface of the land under P.S. 18 and P.S. 278 on W. 219th and 
9th Avenue 10 years ago. The report notes a gas station across the 
street at the time.

The finding was made by Long Island Analytical, an environmental testing 
facility that was hired to investigate the land before its potential 
sale in 1999.

The report surfaced through a series of Freedom of Information Act 
requests filed with the Department of Education and the DEC by Attorney 
Dawn Phillip of the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, who has 
worked on a number of similar cases in the city.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.manhattantimesnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=651%3Apossible-pollution-in-two-inwood-schools&catid=127%3Anovember-4-2009&Itemid=187&lang=en

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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