Schools
Public Comment Now Open on Plan for GHS Soil Cleanup
A 30-Day comment period on the cleanup plan known as RAP begins Friday, Sept. 5, 2013. Also, there is a public meeting scheduled for September 18, 2013, 6:00pm at Greenwich High School.
Written by Leslie Yager
The draft of the Greenwich High School soil clean up plan known as the "Remedial Action Plan," or RAP, is posted to the Greenwich Public Schools Web Site along with a GHS Environmental Testing Update.
Member of the community are invited to submit comments online at the GPS Web Site during a 30-day period ending Oct. 5, 2013.
The plan will be presented to the community at Greenwich High School on Sept. 18 from 6:00pm - 9:00p.m and experts will take questions from the community.
Town officials said the plan needs approval of regulators, primarily the EPA, and involves GHS campus being closed next summer. "Summer school will be relocated, probably to one or more of the middle schools, and Parks and Rec summer camps need to move," said Schools Supt. McKersie at a hastily called press briefing on Friday morning.
Also, the plan calls for soil containing PCBs greater than 50 mg/kg to be transported to Wayne, Michigan for disposal and soil containing PCBs less than 50/mg/kg to be transported to Seneca Meadows, Inc. landfill in Seneca Falls, NY.
The briefing was hosted by a panel that included Commissioner of Public Works, Amy Siebert; AECOM Senior Program Manager, Mike Doherty; Board of Education Chairman, Leslie Moriarty and Schools Superintendent, Bill McKersie.
More details from the briefing will appear monday on Greenwich Patch.
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