[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, HEALTH: Lake Ontario Ordnance Works (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

LEWISTON-PORTER SCHOOLS
Corps testing finds no risk to campus

By Richard E. Baldwin
Buffalo News (NY)
September 6, 2011

LEWISTON - The Lewiston- Porter school campus is adjacent to former  
government plants that handled highly toxic TNT explosives and  
components of the atomic bomb during the World War II era, but recent  
tests show that there is no risk to human health or to the  
environment at the school buildings and grounds.

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced: "The Lewiston-Porter  
School District property has been thoroughly tested, and no risk to  
human health and the environment was identified. As a result, there  
is no need for further investigations or action by the Corps of  
Engineers on the school district property."



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For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/lewiston/article546651.ece

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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