Solutia is required to remove PCBs found at two schools - Anniston High and Constantine Elementary.  Test results show a small contamination area, but to some parents any amount of exposure at school is too much.

Tiffany Bush says, "It's just alarming to me right now just finding this out."  All last year Bush's children walked past contaminated land at Constantine Elementary.  She says she is shocked they were traveling past contaminated soil at school.

With class back in session in less than three weeks there's really no time to waste in cleaning up the site. Solutia, the company responsible for the contamination, committed to dig up the affected soil before students return in August.

According to Superintendent Joan Frazier, "That will require the digging of the dirt and the removing of the sod and the process that we've all come very accustomed to."

The dig site at Anniston High is on the south side near a drainage ditch. At Constantine the PCB contamination lies by a sidewalk north of the front door to the school. It's a total of less than one acre of land, but it's considered a potentially high-traffic area.  Frazier says it's an area "where there's at least an opportunity for children to walk in the area of the grass. But as far as habitually being habitated on in these area every school day. No."

The Foothills Community Fellowship discovered the PCBs. The exposure level to children is minimal, but even a trace is alarming for parents.  Frazier says "What I want them to know is that their children are very safe but that we are taking this precaution in getting this done."

A Solutia project manager tells ABC 33/40 that the PCB reading at Constantine is just over one part per million. That's the level required for removal.  Readings at Anniston High showed forty parts per million.  That soil will be transported to a landfill within a couple of weeks.