Asbestos air sampling plan for NYC schools and Ground Zero

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

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PRESS RELEASE - STUY HIGH ASBESTOS SKY HIGH

Two aid a haff millior^ stmetures of asbestos per square centimeter were fcund in the carpet of the auditorium of SUytesant Wgh School to Voste completed Friday. Normal background levels in an urban er.vronmem are considered to be 10,000 1 I /• structures per eq cm. 'lire Parents' Assooiatton engineer conducted testa for asbestos in the carpet or the auditorium which was oelng replaced tor aesthaOc reasons, the Parents' Association said. One test ireins back at 60,MO stnietures, six times the expected back®TBund kwei. the other at two and a half million structures or250 times the expected background Parente belitee toe asbestos may hare been tredkod in by woikers and dogs (Mio used Ure auditorium as a base during rescue eperatians id Ground Zere.^ ft could ateo hare resulted from toe ipitia! collapse of toe towers or from the barge operation which eat at EtuywaaifS'ncrth doorstep tor eight months during toe cleanup. The teste ware conducted during a cleanup of the rentllation system afier lead was discorered there at thirty times the regulatory limit. Attooi^ toe Boato tS Educteian had assured parents and staff that toe school had undergone a thorough « asbestos abatement after September 11, serenal months later toe Stuyuesant community learned that the ventilation system « hed not been cleaned. Die Board Of Education continued to refuse to clean ri, despite the fact that FEMA was paying, until toe Parents* AssedafidA iteeteened Utisetieru -I "Iha nows about toe asbestos makes us doubt the tests the BoanS of Education's company has been doing all yosr," said one «l parent. 4 Other parents expressed coneem for the workers who have not been wearing preteethe gear aw waii as concern about toe dAMrenmental Impact of toe monumental rabuiWing process on their children. 5 ■4 Janna Orkiri- 4 it’ PH ,1

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i leeelied the uRrasonicaSion test results lor the AuditoHum

(ln^ Pll aroet from EMSL Analytical today, goth are extremely high {apprexirTteteiy jQ.OQQ and 2.5 million asbestos slnjctures per square cenlime^). (will ax a copy of the rceufts to each of you. Lesete greaterthan 10.000 ere :une«iy tdgsarma abatement tor Wrc reiateo prejecu. Suiprieingiy the 4gtast value was from under a seat in the rear cf the Auditorium (befow the teaxatt'neJ.flWs certainly laises concern that the seats are contaminated. lOE should adequately sample CA5TM Micre^fie) the seats to detetmine If Jeaflflita ifl toesQde. If the seats are not replaced, extenshe sampling Hi heuld be peitoimed sRer cleaning end pries' to occupancy. Similar onsiderebon should he ghen to replacing and/or testing the Gth few tony caupeiing, 1 »l •I •I <1 *

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