Toxic Dirt Near Local Elementary School

A dirt mound has been sitting near a local elementary school for years and there are toxic chemicals in the dirt. It's at the Snyder-Girotti Elementary School in Bristol Borough.

Officials say moving the dirt would force a tax hike while neighbors say the mound puts them in danger. The dirt has been sitting here since 2007 after the district tore down the old Snyder Girotti elementary school and built this new one. Wessel says the dirt hill has become the new playground for neighborhood kids.

The bigger concern here is reports that the soil is contaminated. Charles Groff, a new, recently elected school board member says a report he saw from a year ago stated there's high levels of arsenic, lead, Benzo Pyrene which is considered a pollutant and carcinogen, and other contaminants in the dirt.

The dirt sits in borough councilman Tony Devine's ward. He says the holdup is money and Devine is referring to the president of council which is his son runs the school board. So he feels no one wants to blame the dirt being there, on the other. It is on school district property.
The school board meets Thursday, the issue is expected on the agenda.