Post by sushi on Apr 6, 2008 5:44:43 GMT -6
Board to release Metea reports Monday
April 6, 2008
By Tim Waldorf twaldorf@scn1.com
Indian Prairie School District 204's board will release results of the environmental studies undertaken on a portion of the Eola Road property during a special meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday at the Howard Crouse Educational Center, 780 Shoreline Drive in Aurora.
The district hopes to build Metea Valley High School on the site.
The presentation will outline what the studies found and how any contamination they uncovered can be cleaned up, Superintendent Stephen Daeschner said.
In all likelihood, the presentation will not be followed by the finalization of the land purchase, he said.
District 204 has had the results of these studies since the board's March 10 meeting, but until this week it had not been able to secure permission from the various parties involved in the land purchase to release the results to the public.
However, officials have met with and asked questions of the consultants who performed the studies, and have stated that the study uncovered few concerns.
Midwest Generation owns 37 of the selected school site's 87 acres, and until a year ago, it operated a peaker power plant on 17 of those acres in the northeast corner of the property.
To allay environmental safety concerns and determine what, if any, work will need to be done to transform this portion of the site into a suitable location for a high school campus, the district commissioned a two-phase environmental study of that property. The first phase looked at historical data from the site and past property owners. The second phase looked for the presence of various kinds of chemical contamination in 96 different soil borings and ground water sampling.
April 6, 2008
By Tim Waldorf twaldorf@scn1.com
Indian Prairie School District 204's board will release results of the environmental studies undertaken on a portion of the Eola Road property during a special meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday at the Howard Crouse Educational Center, 780 Shoreline Drive in Aurora.
The district hopes to build Metea Valley High School on the site.
The presentation will outline what the studies found and how any contamination they uncovered can be cleaned up, Superintendent Stephen Daeschner said.
In all likelihood, the presentation will not be followed by the finalization of the land purchase, he said.
District 204 has had the results of these studies since the board's March 10 meeting, but until this week it had not been able to secure permission from the various parties involved in the land purchase to release the results to the public.
However, officials have met with and asked questions of the consultants who performed the studies, and have stated that the study uncovered few concerns.
Midwest Generation owns 37 of the selected school site's 87 acres, and until a year ago, it operated a peaker power plant on 17 of those acres in the northeast corner of the property.
To allay environmental safety concerns and determine what, if any, work will need to be done to transform this portion of the site into a suitable location for a high school campus, the district commissioned a two-phase environmental study of that property. The first phase looked at historical data from the site and past property owners. The second phase looked for the presence of various kinds of chemical contamination in 96 different soil borings and ground water sampling.