L.A. School District Kept Mum About Contaminants At New School

Parents are outraged that district have known about the contaminants for over two years.

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June 10, 2005, 5:00 AM PDT

By Brenda Meyer


"What school officials failed to say at the time, however, was that their handpicked developer had violated the district's environmental specifications by using hundreds of cubic yards of fill from a stockpile contaminated with carcinogenic PCBs and high levels of harmful petroleum byproducts, according to public and confidential records obtained by The Times.

In fact, the records show, school officials failed to tell state environmental regulators that the fill was already in the ground when the regulators ordered the school district not to use it. L.A. Unified officials kept mum for two years, despite a state law requiring school districts to notify regulators whenever contaminants are detected at a school construction site, records and interviews show."

Thanks to Brenda Meyer

Tuesday, June 7, 2005 in The Los Angeles Times

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