GREENWICH HOMEOWNERS ARE GOING TO PAY, BECAUSE THE SAME OLD LOCAL TOWN OFFICIALS STILL CONTINUE TO REWARD FAILURE !!!!
The Representative Town Meeting voted Monday to pay about $1.2 million to finance the cleanup of contaminated soil at Greenwich High School and will further reward failure by replenishing funds that have already been spent from the school's building committee's auditorium project budget.
The $1.2 million was approved by the Board of Estimate and Taxation last week, and will come from the town's capital non-recurring expense account.
However, Greenwich taxpayers need to be altered that, if any of more test borings come up positive for PCB's, then the price for remediation climbs exponentially.
The very important RTM vote was the last of the evening, so that it would be taken after reporter deadlines at mainstream media outlets like the Greenwich Time. It is a damn shame that the Hearst Corporation would not pay overtime for a reporter to be at this crucial RTM vote.
The cleanup plan includes removing contaminated soil in four areas around the fields, and then replacing it with clean fill. The public will then be allowed to access that area of the site.
The town is reviewing remediation options for turf fields 3 and 4, and developing plans for grass fields 2 and 5. District officials foolishly expect fields 2 and 5 will be open in time for spring sports.
In the west parking lot, the piles of contaminated soil have been removed. Tests on the asphalt underneath supposedly did not find any residual PCB contamination.
If the EPA is persuaded to sign off on the tests conducted for the Greenwich Board of Education, district officials expect to reopen the parking lot to students in two to three weeks.
Most Greenwich Taxpayers don't realized that they are being nickled and dimed on on this High school PCB cleanup, because the mainstream media owned by the Hearst Corporation is not keeping them updated.
Last Monday, the Board of Estimate and Taxation authorized yet another the release of funding that will go toward remediation work and the testing of deep soil at Greenwich High School.
The money will be separate from funding for MISA, which had just gotten under way when workers discovered the contamination in July.
Joseph Ross, who was involved in the millions of dollars in Hamilton Avenue School cost over runs and is now the chairman of the MISA building committee, said last week that his group should be compensated for trying to minimize the environmental issues they caused over the summer.
This problem was made worse, because Mr. Ross did not immediately step aside and let town, school and federal authorities take command of the PCB's he had dug up.
Contractors discovered the contamination while undertaking work to expand the school's western parking lot and dig a trench for an irrigation line for the MISA project and Mr. Ross until recently refused to step back from his errors.
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