Classes at a small northern West Virginia school will be relocated starting this fall, two years after the town’s contaminated groundwater was added to a national cleanup priority list. Wetzel County Schools Superintendent Cassandra Porter announced the move Tuesday for students, faculty and staff at Paden City High School.
Classes at a small West Virginia school will be relocated this fall, two years after the town’s contaminated groundwater was added to a national cleanup priority list.
“A safe learning environment for our students is fundamental and imperative,” Porter said in a letter to faculty and staff.Tetrachloroethylene is widely used by dry cleaners. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the contaminated area is around the site of a dry cleaner that closed more than two decades ago in the Ohio River town of about 2,500 residents.
Students in grades 7 and 8 will relocate to New Martinsville School, and those in grades 9 through 12 will attend Magnolia High School, Porter said. She called the relocation temporary, and her letter didn’t indicate how long it would last. “A wait-and-see approach with a tetrachloroethylene plume underneath a school is unreasonable and potentially dangerous. A lack of immediate action could lead to unmanageable and regrettable losses. My commitment to providing our students with a safe and high-quality education, not to mention common sense, motivates me to act now.”
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