EPA won't store tainted soil near S. Ind. school
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Posted: 2:12 PM Mar 4, 2010
EPA won't store tainted soil near S. Ind. school
Evansville, IN
A federal agency has dropped plans to use a vacant lot next to a school to temporarily store lead- and arsenic-contaminated soil being removed from an Evansville neighborhood.
Reporter: The Associated Press
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A federal agency has dropped plans to use a vacant lot next to a school to temporarily store lead- and arsenic-contaminated soil being removed from an Evansville neighborhood.

Environmental Protection Agency officials announced Wednesday that they wouldn't use the lot near Glenwood Middle School. They are looking for an alternate site to put the soil for a few days
before it is moved to a regulated landfill.

That could delay the start of work to remove about 12 inches of contaminated soil from the yards of 350 homes in the city's Jacobsville neighborhood.

Project manager Mary Tierney says she hadn't known that the proposed storage site was next to a school because she relied on an Internet search to view the area.
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