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the owners of house did not know in the first days, how they should proceed. Some the hall by Asbestsanierer clean would have let. Then however the tenants would have deseamed the dwellings themselves - without each expertise. In this type can have spread asbestos remainder from a simply only output-swept dwelling easily over the hall or the air conditioning system. Also curtains or pad references can deliver the asbestos fibers in the cleaning easily to other textiles.

Even quite well cleaned dwelling houses save to today dangers: On the roof of such a building was, says Jenkins, still substantial quantities asbestos-deaf, which can contaminate the dwellings with each gust of wind again.

South Manhattan is to be explained as a " Superfund Site"der EPA, requires Cate Jenkins therefore. It concerns a status, which the environmental protection authority assigns to on particularly contaminated areas." the government would have to then monitor the clearing up work. One would have security that all dwellings and offices are cleaned for Jenkins according to the same methods ", so.

Contaminated as at the mine

Their demand justifies it with the experiences with clearing up work in a mine village in the US federation State of Montana. In the mines of Libby for many years asbestos was diminished - probably even that, which was used with the building of the World trade of center. The city got superfind status, after the EPA In the houses Libbys asbestos concentrations had found, those after Jenkins calculations was partly even lower than in south Manhattan. The EPA had used those fine measuring methods, to which she did not fall back in New York in Libby.

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