[CPEO-BIF] Kiddie College (NJ) hearing

[Lenny Siegel]

Hearing held on government failures on day-care site

TIM ZATZARINY JR.
South Jersey Courier-Post (NJ)
October 19, 2006


A state legislative committee heard hours of testimony Wednesday about 
the failure of government at all levels to stop a former thermometer 
factory from operating as a day-care center for more than two years.

The state Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee conducted a 
daylong hearing in the Delsea Regional High School auditorium. The 
hearing drew more than 100 residents and parents of children who 
attended Kiddie Kollege, as well as environmentalists, attorneys and 
local officials.

Kiddie Kollege's owners voluntarily shut down the center in July after 
high levels of mercury were found inside the building on Delsea Drive. 
Although local, county, state and federal officials were aware the site 
was contaminated, no one prevented Kiddie Kollege from opening in early 
2004.

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Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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