2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 15:57:53 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Olod Bronx New School (New York) "significant threat to public health"
 
State warns city: school site is toxic

By Sarina Trangle
Riverdale Press (NY)
May 9, 2012

The Bronx New School, PS 51's old building has been deemed a "significant threat to public health" by state agencies.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation sent out a notification on May 1 announcing that the 18,200-square-foot building at 3200 Jerome Ave. sits on grounds that contain dangerous levels of two carcinogens - Trichloroethylene (TCE) and Tetrachloroethylene (PCE).

The site where the school had been located since 1993 has been accepted into the Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP), a state initiative designed to help property owners redevelop contaminated sites.

...

For the entire article, see
http://riverdalepress.com/stories/State-warns-city-school-site-is- toxic,50304

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Lenny Siegel
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