After learning about the Superfund, I was reminded of when I was a student at Hamden Middle School. I recall an issue of many teachers being sick, fighting cancer, and even death. It wasn't soon after that there was talk about relocating the school and many homes in the neighborhood went on the market. I remember feeling a bit of comfort knowing that it was only a two year school and my second year was half over already. I haven't thought about it since then until now. The article I read was "Hamden seeking developers of Whalen Middle School Site, Again". The former Hamden Middle School neighborhood called Newhall neighborhood, is part of a remediation project that was brought upon after discovering the land was contaminated with high levels
