10.06.2003
Community News Not "Growth Industry"
Boston Globe talks with Ed Forry, of the Dorchester Reporter:
''People used to talk down Dorchester, and it became a place you come from, not go to. That's why we rail against the restaurant on the Neponset River, in Dorchester, that says it's located on such and such a street near the Milton line. We're sensitive to the notion that when a crime happens at Columbia Point, then Columbia Point is in Dorchester. But if the president comes to an event at the Kennedy Library at Columbia Point, well, he's visiting the Kennedy Library in Boston.''
The Dorchester Reporter regularly covers UMass Boston happenings, like this one right here, about the pump station that the university wants to build a new science center on:
"A nine-year-old environmental study of the Calf Pasture Pump Station, the Boston Water and Sewer Commission-owned property on Columbia Point that UMass-Boston covets for a new technology center, has residents worried about health risks of re-developing the site, the Reporter learned this week.
Chemicals in the soil of the Calf Pasture pump station property 'may pose an excess cancer risk' and 'may present unacceptable risks to the general public,' according to a 1994 report obtained by the Reporter. The study, conducted by Green Environmental, Inc., found 'heavy metals' that 'could lead to elevated blood levels in children inhaling and/or swallowing the dirt.'"
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''People used to talk down Dorchester, and it became a place you come from, not go to. That's why we rail against the restaurant on the Neponset River, in Dorchester, that says it's located on such and such a street near the Milton line. We're sensitive to the notion that when a crime happens at Columbia Point, then Columbia Point is in Dorchester. But if the president comes to an event at the Kennedy Library at Columbia Point, well, he's visiting the Kennedy Library in Boston.''
The Dorchester Reporter regularly covers UMass Boston happenings, like this one right here, about the pump station that the university wants to build a new science center on:
"A nine-year-old environmental study of the Calf Pasture Pump Station, the Boston Water and Sewer Commission-owned property on Columbia Point that UMass-Boston covets for a new technology center, has residents worried about health risks of re-developing the site, the Reporter learned this week.
Chemicals in the soil of the Calf Pasture pump station property 'may pose an excess cancer risk' and 'may present unacceptable risks to the general public,' according to a 1994 report obtained by the Reporter. The study, conducted by Green Environmental, Inc., found 'heavy metals' that 'could lead to elevated blood levels in children inhaling and/or swallowing the dirt.'"
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