[CPEO-BIF] Midway Elementary School, Seminole County, Florida

[Lenny Siegel]

School may be built near site of arsenic
Some parents are alarmed at Seminole's plans for the new Midway Elementary.

Dave Weber
Orlando Sentinel (FL)
September 27, 2006

SANFORD -- Officials think they can safely shoehorn a planned $15 
million elementary school on part of an arsenic-polluted site east of 
Sanford if the state gives the go-ahead on the long-delayed project.

The new Midway Elementary would be built on the half of the 30-acre 
parcel where none of the poison has been found. District officials hope 
someday to construct a middle school on the polluted section as well, if 
a way can be found to cleanse the land -- or the arsenic somehow disappears.

Officials are downplaying pollution concerns and say the school site is 
safe.

"I'm assuming that if the Department of Environmental Protection gives 
the green light, the parcel of land they are going to build on is going 
to be safe for all concerned," said Sharon Tanner, principal of the 
current Midway Elementary.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/education/orl-midway2706sep27,0,3221761.story?coll=orl-news-education-headlines

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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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