Attended by neighborhood residents, educators and trade workers, a crowd Thursday night packed the Harding cafeteria during a public hearing on the proposed location of a new school on contaminated property owned by General Electric. More from Linda Conner Lambeck, CT Post:
Willie Vegas attended Harding High School. He has four grandkids who potentially will attend a new Harding built on a cleaned-up GE brownfield site a few blocks away at 379 Bond Street.
“I would not support this if I thought there would be any kind of danger that would hurt them,” Vegas said, echoing the sentiments of the majority of speakers–many of them construction workers–crowded into a public hearing Thursday.
Full story here.
In this video by Megan DeSombre who hosts Education Bridgeport, environmental professional Deborah Brown addresses concerns about site contamination for the proposed Harding site at the Tuesday night hearing.
Back in the day every factory in Bridgeport and surrounding towns like Fairfield, Milford and Stratford would let those factories dump on their own property. and no one would say a word, after all they employed thousands of people back then.
Companies like GE, Harvey Hubble, Robert Shaw, Bridgeport Fittings, Bryant Electric, Jellif, Bullards just to name a few. They basically had nowhere to dump their toxic waste, they would dig a hole on their property and bury almost everything and just cover it up or send it down a pipe to Long Island Sound like Bridgeport Fittings does today in Stratford.
Those factories used acetones, lead, PCB, mercury, every carcinogen known to man, mostly for plating.
We need the Federal Government EPA to sign off on GE!
I’m sure this will be the Feds EPA next Superfund Project for Bridgeport.
Before we let one kid walk on this GE toxic dump, contact your Federal EPA (202-564-4700)
Let’s not turn this into another Greenwich High School, we owe it to our kids!
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Toxic-secrets-5553424.php
EPA: 202-564-4700
Jim, your post is right on the money.
Thanks, Andy.
This issue at hand is not whether a new Harding High School should be built, the question is should it be built on the largest brownfield site in CT.
Building Harding on the GE site has absolutely nothing to do with what is best for children, it has everything to do with what is best for Mayor Finch and Bridgeport Hospital. In fact, a VP from GE sits on the BOD of Bridgeport Hospital. And remember, Bridgeport Hospital gave Mayor Finch $10,000 for his failed attempt to deny Bridgeport residents their right to vote for their BBOE members.
You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.