From the Greeneville [NC] News:

A state-funded program for adults with disabilities in South Carolina is being conducted on a Superfund hazardous cleanup site where residences, hospitals,  schools, farming and day care programs are banned by law, according to a report by The Greenville News.

Some 200 people with disabilities are receiving job training at the Charles Lea Center site in Inman while the state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control continues to investigate the extent of contamination at the site.

Legislators and Gov. Mark Sanford’s office expressed alarm. “It does just send a bad message to put an adult-care facility in a place where you could not put a child-care facility, or for that matter raise animals,” said the governor’s spokesman.

David Kiely, the center’s executive director, said the “minor spillage of some chemicals” on site before the purchase has been cleaned up and there is “no danger.”

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