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Rebecca Baker, Register Staff December 30, 2000 A Y
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HAMDEN — The Olin Corp., a Norwalk manufacturing
company, has emerged as a player in the Harnden Middle '
; F'°"' "°° School contamination controversy because it may have
‘ ;_°;' *:f‘n`;°" dumped industrial waste on school property before the i _, E
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g wes: Metro But the town would share the blame for allowing hazardous materials to be Q]!
. Naugamk Vane, dumped in a former landlill on school grounds. ‘ _
T F’*'"°'° °°""’Y Mayor Carl Amento said Olin, which produces copper and sporting `, Q
5 0**** °°¤"°°”°°* ammunition, might be the "ultimate wrongdoers." But some histoncal _ we:
; Statewi¤¤JR¤gi¤nal accounts slgow town govemment might have operated the dump for a time, .
5 me eiouer Amento sai . G 1
:/Slwmd Ofticials are investigating if and when the town had ownership of the former
¤ L ‘:t“"'°' landfill and what materia s were dumped there dunng that time. _. _Q;;—:
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i Tues "Unfortunately, we may be sharing that (ultimate wrongdoers)_ title," Amento ‘ * .;
I conoouoos said Fridaly. "l still hope the bulk of liability would be put on Olin, but we may , _,
I Land deeds be down ere with them" _y, _
l AP"T"°“"'° Officials from Hamden and the state Department of Environmental _ 2 `°.
l Protection will meet with Olin executives in Hartford on Jan. 10 to discuss ‘ _
Q | r Sports the corporation's role in bringing hazardous waste to the site decades ago. »- _ gy
I R tativ fr th h l ‘ hborhood also will be resent l
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i gig Corp. spokesman Thomas Fitzgerald could not be reached for comment '
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l :,,::3mss "lt’s our job to find out who’s responsible," said Mike Harder, who directs the · _,`
l I , subsmpuons cleanup and enforcement of contaminated sites for the DEP. _,
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' I ’ "°‘”"t"'°‘ The Newhall Street school opened in 1957 on land that was used as an MBE
industrial dump in the 1940s. Harder said town residents have identified Olin _..»
as one of the companies that dumped waste into the former landfill. is
I Harder said the middle school properly is listed on an inventory of sites `
used by the federal govemment to choose Superfund cleanup proiects. . ·
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| r Town rank However, the property is not listed on the Superfund's National Priority List
y Ngwspaper fn and is not a state Superfund site, Harder said.
· I The DEP has been overseeing testing and remediation plans at the school
' other since soil tests last month showed high levels of lead. carcinogens and other
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The tests were ordered to prepare for a $19.5 million building expansion,
| which since has been cancelled.
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= Town officials decided to extend holiday vacation by nine days and close the
school until Jan. 16 to allow more time to remove contaminated soil, perform
· additional air tests and thoroughly clean the auditorium, where small
amounts of toxins also were discovered.
Meanwhile, the DEP has been testing the soil at Rochford Field behind the
school and will test soil elsewhere in the neighborhood next week. . J
k’·¥i$7'f37'?¢=7'»¤"¥ Results of those tests will be announced at a public meeting scheduled for
7:30 p.m. Jan. 9 at an undetermined location.
""”"`"“?‘$ While testing continues, a roup of middle school nei hbors, parents and
{Wk here [K > ,1- -’ teachers have formed the gewhall Coalition to sharegnformation and °
I lglgsl .i ' 3;:;:-:·r; pressure public ofticials into action.
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“`T sawmqm br 'We just have to keep applying the pressure where it's needed. Someone *
,_%£ ` spaciahs has to be held accountable,” said Joe Frasier, a former Hamden hre g
- °“°* . commissioner leading the group. _
E . P Frasier and leaders of the Hamden Middle School Parent—Teacher
i _ kl:. Association met with about 40 parents and teachers this week to discuss the
best way to proceed.
Group leaders asked volunteers to write letters, call elected oflicials and
dggegop a Web site with updated infomation about test results and cleanup
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"lt’s a much largler issue than the Hamden Middle School. tt’s a health issue
for the town of amden,” Frasier said.
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