Al Gore's new Montecito, CA Estate - $9,900,000
Posted on 09/06/2010 7:05:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
He's the first vice president to have an L.A. school named after him, sharing the honor with author Rachel Carson. Fittingly, the campus will be devoted to environmental themes. But there's a catch.
The campus was built atop contaminated land.
School district officials insist that the Arlington Heights property is clean and safe. And they've pledged to check vapor monitors and groundwater wells to make sure.
"Renaming this terribly contaminated school after famous environmental advocates is an affront to the great work that these individuals have done to protect the public's health from harm," an environmental coalition wrote in a letter to the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Construction crews were working at the campus up to the Labor Day weekend, replacing toxic soil with clean fill. All told, workers removed dirt from two 3,800-square-foot plots to a depth of 45 feet, space enough to hold a four-story building. The soil had contained more than a dozen underground storage tanks serving light industrial businesses.
Additional contamination may have come from the underground tanks of an adjacent gas station. A barrier will stretch 45 feet down from ground level to limit future possible fuel leakage.
An oil well operates across the street, but officials said they've found no associated risks. Like many local campuses, this school also sits above an oil field, but no oil field-related methane has been detected.
Groundwater about 45 feet below the surface remains contaminated but also poses no risk, officials said.
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The algore high school and massage parlor...
today the place is a retard factory, but the fifty $8k/ea round windows look the bomb.
lol, that's the name of the sports teams at the school....their fight song will be "Cry, cry, cry- Man-Bear-Pig- cry" and their chant: "We are going to Whine this"
Any school named after the Holy Warmer Al Gore has got to be named “St. Deceiveus.”
I think the name of the school is “Fat Slob With Minimal Intellect and No Integrity Algore School for Liberal Losers.” I think I read that somewhere on the internet. Also, it said that students get free massages there.
Is it a massage school?
Wellll...OK, Nancy!
Reminds me of a joke about two hunters in which the punchline is "OK, he's dead, now what?"
Al Gore's new Montecito, CA Estate - $9,900,000
The cypress trees are a nice touch. Not.
Trash High
Only Apple computers will be allowed in iGore’s school.
There IS a God!
Someone sure has a crazy sense of humor-—
Building a namesake Al Gore school on this kind of property.
With declining school enrollments, why are they building anything at all?
It was gonna be called LA LA LAND School - but as a result of a typo, it will now be called The AL Landfill Re-education Center.
“INTERNET HIGH”
There are too many high schools named after politicians. Just once, I would like to see a school named after an inventor, say Thomas Edison, Philo Farnsworth, or Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider , who really did invent the Internet.
It it called “Happy Ending”?
This is timely because I just dedicated one of my toilets as the algore green toilet.
Which was it’s intended purpose. Kill 2/3rds of the population—that is the liberal social engineering motto.
Makes perfect sense. LA schools don’t educate. So why not name a school after someone who hasn’t learned a thing in his life, except to lie, cheat and steal.
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