[CPEO-MEF] Union City (NJ) high school site and the Manhattan Project

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[I am posting this article on both the Military Environmental Forum and 
the Brownfields Internet Forum because it raises issues about building 
schools on contaminated sites, normally a BIF subject, on property 
contaminated by the Manhattan Project, normally something we cover on 
the MEF. - LS]


Safety didn't come first in hunt for N.J. school sites


By JEFF PILLETS
The Record (NJ)
April 23, 2006

In the darkest days of World War II, the U.S. Army came to Union City 
with an open checkbook and a secret mission.

Officers from the Army Corps of Engineers were searching for industrial 
sites for use in a program that came to be known as the Manhattan Project.

The old R.H. Simon Silk Mill at 39th Street and Kennedy Boulevard was 
chosen to produce cold-rolled rods of solid uranium as one of hundreds 
of factories and labs working covertly to help produce the first atomic 
bomb.

Sixty years later, officials of New Jersey's Schools Construction 
Corporation spent millions out of its own fat checkbook advancing the 
silk mill as the best location for a new Union City High School for 
1,750 students.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzJmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2OTI0MjE4JnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mg==
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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
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