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Children's Health > School Siting > Schools Near Superfund Sites

Schools Within Half Mile of a Superfund Site

from Creating Safe Learning Zones: Invisible Threats, Visible Actions, a 2002 report of the Siting Committee of the Child Proofing Our Communities Campaign

Below are the results of a 5-state survey of schools within ½ mile of a known state or federal Superfund site. The survey, conducted in 2002, found that 621,931 students in 1,195 public schools attended school within ½ mile of a federal or state Superfund site. That number is likely greater today.

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California

Statewide Map Fresno Los Angeles Merced Orange Riverside Sacramento San Bernadino San Diego San Francisco Santa Clara Siskiyou School Addresses

Massachusetts

Barnstable Berkshire Northern Bristol Southern Bristol Dukes Essex-1 Essex-2 Essex-3 Essex-4 Franklin Eastern Hampden Western Hampden Hampshire Middlesex-1 Middlesex-2 Middlesex-3 Middlesex-4 Middlesex-5 Middlesex-6 Northern Norfolk Southern Norfolk Southwestern Norfolk Plymouth-1 Plymouth-2 Suffolk-1 Suffolk-2 Suffolk-3 Suffolk-4 Northern Worchester Southern Worchester Town of Worchester Statewide Map

Michigan

Allegan Alpena Bay Berrien Cass Charlevoix Chippewa Clinton Emmet Ingham Ionia Kalamazoo Kent Leelanau Lenewee Monroe Montcalm Montmorency Muskegon Newaygo Oakland Schoolcraft St. Joseph Van Buren Washtenaw Wayne Wexford Statewide Map School Addresses

New Jersey

Atlantic Bergen Camden Cumberland Essex Hudson Middlesex Morris Ocean Somerset Statewide Map School Addresses

New York

Statewide Map Albany Bronx Catteraugus Chemung Chenango Cortland Delaware Dutchess Eerie Select County Fulton Herkimer Jefferson Kings Monroe Nassau New York Niagra Oneida Onondaga Orange Orleans Queens Rensselaer Richmond Rockland Saratoga Schenectady Seneca Steuben Suffolk Sullivan Tioga Tompkins Ulster Washington Wayne Westchester School Addresses

Finding Information on Contaminated Sites
The Environmental Protection Agency lists all contaminated sites by longitude and latitude, not by address, making it difficult to determine exactly where the site begins and ends.

To find out about a local contaminated site, call your county health or environmental department. Ask them where the contaminated sites are located in the county, and for any information they have on clean-up plans for the site, what contaminates were found, and any other information, such as maps of the site.  They have this information available to them, but some employees will be hesitant to give it out, so you may need to be aggressive and demand the information.  If they refuse to give you the information, call your local elected representatives office.

If you need help understanding the information you receive, give CHEJ a call at (703) 237-2249 and we will find someone in your area or help you ourselves. 

CHEJ’s Child Proofing our Communities Campaign is dedicated to empowering local leadership to encourage their local school boards and state legislators to pass legislation that prohibits schools from being built on or near contaminated property. Contact us for help or use the links at the left for more information.

Child Proofing our Communities is a campaign of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice.