Asbestos contamination study excerpt, Oct 2001

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t’!- newer test = A sbcMOs I'ontnminAtion insicte buildings near A the World Trade Center Bite may be far worse TT^than government ottictals have reported, ac­ cording to a new study by a top pnvatc toxicology fjfjY) Uiuldi U.S- Etiviruiviwnlal Pro- Ptt’ MlUp«t Of the twin towon :f . f' pulvenzed much of the asbeslOF) 85 ssssrsKffS?: ssaastts ssas s « ^.sSsfSig WS a team of scientists (tom HP Eiwironmcnlol Inc., n Virginia- ['51” lianpiliiiinfiMnyihsi oversawtoxi- ~s«"* “ and one r«i5 cniftgy aiiilysM al the «hrld !««! 3TO fitxfw Trade Center after the 1993 al- Scientist’s Wanting uck. rphai is a “iimijiiilnilr ijf (Itwrs The fii ui spent 15 days last J. Ihat it would bebs-st inx lu k. month studjing health hazards nora," Chmielinski warned. faced by cleanup crews worlung *WlnCs iiuiidB the buildings Is for a mail estate compnny that rhe iwniltnfwluii got introduced owms two offlrr hiniduig, „uiih dun ng ,|„ espiosions," sail! of vround Zero. pp sicphen Levin nt I hr Nnlikotf •in the Oeguirnng we were get Oiiirr fur Occupational Safety ting dean iraiili^ or no [Mbes- andlliuilth and Moi mt .31. nd Meili- tn»l« .Mid Piotr Chiiiiehiisw, uim cal Center. Uviiw suit! he Is far Of (he scientists more worried will, wurkttd on about indoor Ilie study. "Until COnt^nuriHliuii we discovered thun of aabcahw that a lot of dusi levels on the and other panic- JUAN • >'1 I MiwtsoutwJe. Ulates in our sam plesiWBwebGcur- HU27J “’Ihe 5TnAlh?i the particle .,, Ulg the. tiny ua* Ulf i-Hsier job bMtos fibers in ibat 11 lias pene- the back trabtlg right gniimd - " , . . . „ . . Ju*"* Into the very depths af the Many Indoor t^tf. lJo(r« dow lungs." said one of Lavine's col by kdEfsl or Inr.l hralih lejguc.s. Di. iMiilip I undriran, dl- or by private clcenup mmp»nie» rerfor of env i, v.uLeiital a^ooou- -I® prooeduro col cd patlonal medicine at Mount Sinai. SSS^iSSSL*** «»•* •w*’ ‘’ealih Officials only dcleiSK nstwaln* fil.ivm u( al said mpesledly that esbeatos an " *“•' Q™**"" ’nvnb in ouSide a/have only i*;- iMwlnc nWa cmatM stMn yetMor it taint mttHpmioi (4 h b«bi<& sjssls'SjSs asSi.s.ss? ’“ 2S3S5*,2ffif‘’-Hi- pensive — method of analysis,

re historic buildings diea^rnuXd showed fai greal- *Si? TC^were teaasuring '* ’*’"*• g | TbnWS 3 IMA* amof iiw puUiv, EPa officials distribut- s and Wurlil Monuments Rind, th* IWfihington bused Trthe (C^ took 11 air samples ed mplraiurs late last week (0 9 n af. Nailuujil Trust for Hiatortc Preservation, the Al­ ± OB different nooia of two their employees In tlie Fwliaal 5 an- bany-based Preservation Imair rtf New York buildingsthatwereuiiiii.lliUaks Building. Iba handouts came in tion Sale, the 108 year eld Mumc^i ah linrirty from the I rafle Center site liking response to cumpiaints Iron the and me New York Landmortu Conservancy. Him chnajier and less exact meth- omploycca of terrible sir niuility , of tach group ia contributing SlO.OOn III Ihr I ow- od, only two of those .snmples re- Ip me building, a few blocks trom =' _jjy er Manhatton Emergency I'lVrtm-vnrtnn FUnd. vcalcdflsbcstos UtvelJ higher than me Trade Center site. x U.7 Tlwimwiry will bemaiuis^ by the Rmd for the ferlerat pemilssible eApuiun! llni- spotseswomah Mary Helen § City of New York. its- ... Cervantes said the ma.tla were Organization leaders said lluiuniiilaiiaii aid re- But when they examined tbocc ,KKirii«iini h,r ihe voluntary use w *ps uuduii New YUrk's top priority. However, ihW saute kOiiiiilm uialw Itio elnTnm employer.v who might » •y" said they're being uuutiudnt by iboiie eager to mirsvwczimrpinrierii.re, which cap- have rcjpiratoiy iibueiiti ui whu ■ •he aiij the recovery M one of the nation’a oldest nues much smaUer particulates f„„| „„„ lamporary dlscomron -“ and most ntsiorio downtowns." they found djal >»iru of Ilie 11 X ised Owen Meritt Siuiiples liaJ ablttsuis levels E moit 5 nil' I.' III . ------ - ■ ','.I.. I I I- ■ I—u'-." • • , above federal standards. tgonzaiez(fi«diLnydai(ytiewk.i»iii "*

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