SCHOOL MASCOT
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Carson’s campaign against DDT killed millions of people.
Continues to kill millions of people. Mostly the darker ones, so Carson and Gore could care less.
***The schools sports team will be know as: “The crazed sex poodles”***
***How about the “Fighting Landfills.”**
How about the TOXIC AVENGERS! Complete with the Toxic Avenger getup, tights and a ballet dress.;-D
It would have been more fitting to not build the school and name the toxic site after Al. I would recommend adding a lot of manure (BS), but that is organic.
SCHOOL MASCOT
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