[CPEO-BIF] "School building brownfield cleanup to begin, " Rochester, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

School building brownfield cleanup to begin

by Justin Murphy
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY)
March 18, 2015

Cleanup crews will soon begin to treat and remove contaminated  
groundwater and soil beneath a school building on St. Paul Street in  
Rochester, the Department of Environmental Conservation announced  
Wednesday.

The work is the long-awaited final step to handle pollution caused by  
a former Bausch + Lomb factory. Rochester Prep High School is located  
in the leased building, 690 St. Paul St., and there are about 175  
Rochester School District students there as well.

Old underground storage tanks leaked trichloroethene, a degreaser,  
into the soil and groundwater. The 4.7-acre site was designated a  
brownfield in 2009 and a ventilation system is in place to keep  
noxious vapors out of the school building.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2015/03/18/brownfield- 
school-cleanup/24973889/

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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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