[CPEO-BIF] Gorham Silver high school site, Providence, Rhode Island

[Lenny Siegel]

Work progresses on Adelaide Avenue school


By Karen Davis
Providence Journal (RI)
October 20, 2006

PROVIDENCE - Construction work is rapidly moving along on the high 
school off Adelaide Avenue in the Reservoir Triangle at the site of the 
former Gorham silverware manufacturing plant.

Work on the 650-pupil school began in mid-June and is expected to be 
completed in January, according to Alan Sepe, the city's acting director 
of public property. When completed, the two-story school will have a 
300-seat gymnasium with locker rooms, a full kitchen, a cafetorium, or a 
cafeteria-auditorium; 18 classrooms, four science labs, a math lab, a 
foreign language room, two meeting rooms, two computer labs, a 
multimedia room-library and faculty planning areas.

...

A Superior Court judge issued two consent decrees that allowed for the 
school and the YMCA to be built, providing that a barrier would be 
placed around a third parcel that includes a cove attached to Mashapaug 
Pond. The judge ordered that the cove, which is believed to be 
contaminated, be investigated and cleaned up later.

The city’s remediation plan calls for capping the soil under and around 
the school with 2 feet of clean soil or cement and creating a 
ventilation system that will clear any potentially hazardous vapors that 
could collect beneath the building.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.projo.com/business/roundup/projo-20061019-adelaide19.52f83a6a.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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