DNR requires more drilling to test groundwater at closed Greene site; NB Board assents

  The North Butler School Board on Tuesday, Nov. 9 approved budget modification to the original contract related to groundwater testing at the brownfield site where the fuel oil tank came out, by the former Greene Elementary.
  The school received a letter from contractor Cardno ATC, which was earlier awarded the project.
  The firm took a groundwater sample in the first testing, then had to remove the tank, NB Superintendent Joel Foster said. When it drilled a second set of holes, water was not found.
  Now the Department of Natural Resources says three holes must be drilled through the bedrock to sample the groundwater.
  Read the cost of the additional work and more school news in the Nov. 19 Butler County Tribune-Journal. Other North Butler School Board stories, on page 15, include: Early retirement offers sent, NB to request open enrollment reimbursement.