DEP internal routing form with action checkboxes, undated

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document Page 3 of 4

Tonight, the results of the I-Team's own environmental testing in the neighborhood around M.S.A. When we found out a city board was keeping air quality tests taken during the implosion secret, the I-Team did it's own testing. Since it is now six months later. Our experts test dust that had settled in the neighborhood.

When Market Square Arena came down, no one knew then the air of controversy would come down with it. "It was very thick, enough to settle in your eyes and up your nose and down your throat," remembers Montel Gyden, an eyewitness to the July Sth explosion.

The dust was tested to see what was in it. First, the owner of the property the Capital Improvement Board kept it secret, now the board says everything turned out fine. "They concluded the implosion should have no negative short term or long term health effects to the community," says C.I.B. spokesperson David Dawson.

But the I-Team found that may not be the case. In January, we asked one environmental engineer to test several locations around M.S.A for asbestos, and a second engineer to test for lead. Even though it's now six months after the implosion, we're testing for what has settled downwind and is still there. "The results of the testing showed there was asbestos in high concentrations adjacent to where M.S.A. was imploded," says Tony Havics, an environmental engineer.

Asbestos testing is Tony Hagies' specialty. He's currently working on the World Trade Center case and how bad the air is there. Near M.S.A. the asbestos hot spot Havics found is right here near the corner of New Jersey and Ohio Streets, a location downwind dining the implosion. The levels are five times higher than normal and unsafe. Compare that to a few blocks away, not downwind, where we find little asbestos.

And the experts point out M.S,A. likely had lead based paint covering many areas. Tom Neltner, a former assistant commissioner of the Indiana Depar of Environmental Management knows a lot about the effects of lead especially on children. "For children it gets into the blood," says Neltner. "They eat it or breathe it and it get into the blood." Neltner finds high levels at East and Ohio Streets, also downwind during the blast.

Havics also found high lead levels at same spot he found asbestos. So the testing the I-Team did showed levels of asbestos and lead higher than normal months later in the area downwind from the implosion. Why 02/04/2002

NYC-WTC_000152029