Given this, should the district pursue alternative options or continue to test this site. One that struct me recently was to instead build a fourth elementary that could result in bringing 6th grade back to the elementary level, leaving the current middle school with 7 & 8 and the high school 9-12. This might not resolve high school space, but it would resolve middle and elementary at a fraction of the proposed price.
Sinkhole could damage future school lot
A 30-foot-wide depression in the Nazareth Area High School field hockey field in Upper Nazareth Township could mean a sinkhole in the new middle school’s parking lot if the problem isn’t resolved. The hole will be tested for future problems in the next two weeks, school officials said. The field hockey field will become a parking lot for the seventh- and eighth-grade building to be built on Friedenstahl Avenue by 2009. The whole middle school site will be tested for sinkholes. The field can be used for practice, school officials said.
What do you think? Could a 4th elementary replace the proposed middle school? What should the district do about the new site - wait and see, or seek alternatives?
2 comments:
We need more space for students and I think the plan proposed is okay (of course the devil is in the details).
I'm more concerned with the apparent increase in sinkholes around here. Increased incidenct of sinkhole seem to have coincided with the quarry being granted the permit to dig deeper... Sucking more and more water out of the ground and increasing the cone.
A house here and there, and then the bridges. Now the school fields... I'm very suprised that the PA DEQ hasn't looked further into the quarry's role in all of this.
When my family first moved to Nazareth back in the mid '70s, we were told there would be no more building closer to the quarry than those homes on El Reno Avenue. Then came the township garage, all the homes in Farmview Estates, then a new Middle School with subsequent site problems... I'm wondering why the likelyhood of sinkholes wasn't investigated sooner than this. Now with all the dollars spent in planning another expansion, changing course is going to be difficult at best.
Bottom line is sure to be more dollars to decide the best way to proceed.
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