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Letter on mercury contamination spread by cleaning activities, Apr 1996

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Correspondence regarding environmental health risks of spreading elemental mercury contamination through common cleaning equipment in April 1996.

NYC-WTC_000144588–000144594

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Return Of WTC Cars Hits EPA Roadblock ByGREGGITTRICH Daily News Staff Writer eutemob

e oncems about asbestos-tainted dust have sh ImThT3d the brakes on the city's plan to return hundreds of cars towed fi-om streets around the World Trade Center to their owners.

The city planned to start giving back the dust-covered vehicles today. But a Daily News report about the dangerous coating of asbestos on the cars prompted federal environmental officials to step in.

"No cars will be released [today]," Kathy Dawkins, a spokeswoman for the city Sanitation Department, said yesterday.

Instead, Environmental Protection Agency and city officials will meet this week to Daring Ground discuss what to do with the cars, parked at Zero cleanup last Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island. month, a car is hoisted from the B2 level of the "We are going to review all the underground procedures," Dawkins said. garage at 6 World Trade Center. ,, In a March 8 article. The News revealed that tests on the vehicles show that as much as 3% of the dust is asbestos, more than three times the level that triggers federal cleanup rulesT^

Many of the cars have little body damage — and nothing would stop scheming owners from rinsing them off and selling them to unwitting buyers.

lofS 3/19/2002 10:32 AM

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