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Y " ‘ ’ *$‘ ;, r; _;l=l,jg|ll!lr?,§t;1»,——,Local·and state officials sard Tuesday that .
”” · FW; ‘ .·éopta‘htr‘natlon at the town's mtddle school m not severe ` l
. F'°" a°° `i enough to -close the building while more testing rs done, . C]
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Wes; Mm, . Leslie Balch, director of the Quinnipiack Valley Health District, told residents ‘ qw
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Naugawck Vane), Tuesday night that ‘we have no reason to believe anyone at the school has _ P
Fairfield County had sufficient exposure (to contamination) to be of concern." ‘ v ¤r
' . ; Other C¤¤¤=¤i¤¤l Some parents among the 100 residents at the meeting] said any exposure is
· siarewruemegrunal too much and are planning to keep therr kids out of sc ool Thursday. Z
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. Usmcdd Jeff t3artell is leading the "srcl<·out," and said lt rs staged to show
Weather administrators that parents don't think unknown levels oftoxins at the school "_
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Tides "\{Ve're startint; with Thursday as a protest and we're not really sure where it ‘i _
congcticns will go," Barte l said. "But my son is scared to goto school." _,
La"'} dwg Residents met with ofhcials from the state Department of Environmental .·
‘“"’T"° "‘”'° Protection to team more about toxins that were found in sotl dunng _ A
El¤¤0¤¤ 2000 preparation to renovate the middle school, which was built in 1954 on a .
I r Business former landhll off Newhall Street . s
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{ it," said Mike Harder from the DEP's water management bureau, -
` I p rrqlrasy euiue ‘ _ "Hundreds of homeowners may ask for us to search in their yard, too, but
I p space; sgjphg first we have to lind more of a reason to search," Harder said; "lf children
er 1 . . are going to school on a site built on waste and people are living on the site, ~ t V
I.']§l°§?m°-ds it becomes a top priority for us." it
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I r subscriptions The DEP did its first tests on balI_lields at the school Saturday and expects
I r Newsstand; to have results Friday. Harder said the Dt£P next week will excavate parts of
I, Entertainment the 5·acre site to remove any contamination that was found in the test. , ‘
It F“” ”“" °°'“°‘ Children were asked by administrators to stay away from the bait Heldsand I
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I the levels aren't high enough to close the whole school. · l 3 Q Tl:}
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ié Educgtjgn teacheg association, are supporting the "sick—out" under suspicion of even _
· minima exposure.
· I ' °u°°r P°b"°°H°"° "l think there will be signiticant numbers of children who stay home, enough _
{ ’ "°‘”’ s°“'°*‘ to let the Board of Education know we‘re unhappy," DeLucsa said. I
~ | r Sports wire: Th? PTA as an organization and school officials have not backed the sick-
_ · . .. . . "There are different levels of anxiety, and some may believe this (sick-out) is ».
‘ than bes'; way to make fthe powers that be more aware of their feeImgs." said
‘ " sc oo rincipal Lisa om/ood. `
. ‘ . -. 4. ..r,, { Balch said the health department feels "there is no reason for kids not to be _
. * ‘ ‘ " ‘ i_ here based on the information we have gathered."
2--. -. ,, we r Closing the auditorium and the tields "was prudent overkill . . . until we _
. , know" what levels of contamination are present, Balch said. - _
J; , . 1 i gs Residents are concemed that the landtill may go beyond the school
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¢.:¤·; shun'; Harder asked area property owners to contact the DEP if they know who
r - . #1;;- may have dumped in the area.
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‘ "l don’t think we have any direct information that houses rn the neighborhood ..
~ 2 .- ¤ were built on top of waste," Harder said. "We are going to do tests and see if
· there are reasons to test beyond the school . . . we need to do an
"’ · investigation to find out what was buried and make decisions on how to ‘
clean it up."
_ Register reporter Michelle Tuccitto contributed to this story.
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