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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

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■t PRESS RELEASE - STUY HIGH ASBESTOS SKV WISH Two and a haff mittion structures of asbestos per square centimeter wem bund in the carpet of the auditorium rtfStuyuesant High School In teste completed Friday. Normal background levels In an urban eriM'ionment are consWsred ta be 10,000 elructures per eg on. The Parents' Assaelallan engirmer conducted two teste ter asbestos in the carpet orthe reMfitedum which was being naplacad « ter aestheffc reasons, the Paierfe' Assoetetton sakt One test came back at 60,000 stnictunes, six times the expected « backartjund level, ths other at two and a half million etruetures or250 times the expected background level. Parente belfeic tha asbestos may hare been treeked in by woikera and dogs who used the auditorium as a base during rescue operations at Oreund Zere-v It could also have resulted tern the initial collapse of tire towers orfom the barge operatian which sat st Btuyreganfs'north doorstep ter months during the ehrenup. Ths tests were conducted during s cleanup ofthe Msntllation system afler lead was discovered there at thirty times the regi^atoy limit AUhou^ the Board of Sducarticn had assured parents and staff that the school had undergorre a thorou^ «i asbestos abatement after September 11, several months later the Stuyvesant community learned that the ventilation ^atem -«> had not been ctearead. The Board of Educatiwi continued to reteae to'clean it, despite the teot that FEMA was paying, until the Parente* Assedjrfiaft threatened litisatiorH Hire news about the asbestos makes us doubt the tests the Board of education^ company has been doing an year,** said one •I preenL- ’ Other parents exiMessed ooneam ter the woteere who have not been wearing protoctlre gear as waH as concern about the «ii erturonmentaj Impact of the monumental rebuilding precess on thair chUdten. ? JermaOrkin*- "fl * PH ’nwn the en^neehs repot

I received the uftrasontaSten ten results lor the Auditorium arpet from EMSL Analytical today. Both are extremely high (^xHoximately ffl.00D and 2.5 million asbeetes stryctures per equeie centimtiter). i will 9X a eqay of the rEButts to each of yoi Lewis greaterthan 10.000 ere wemiy trisgonns abatement tbr WTC related fleets. Surprisingly the PH I 4

fetest value was fifom under a seat In the rear of the Auditorium (belowthe *easanfneJ..^Wa certainly ndees concern that the seats are oontamirated. iOE should edequalaly sample {A8TM MIww) the seats to determine If ■* leaning {s feasWa tf Ae seats am not lepteced. eartanshe sampling * heuid be peffemtad alter ctosrfng and prior to occupancy. StniiBr . * onsideraKon should be ghen to replacing and/or testing the Sth fioor Bxaiy aatpeting.

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