DEP organizational chart for 9/11 emergency response, Sept 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Air safe to breathe, DEP says Air quality in the city remains safe de­ around here, and it won’t been gone by spite the smoke still rising from the Monday,” said Gabriel Piatek, 45, of World Trade Center rubble, officials in­ Tradewinds Corp., a construction com­ sisted yesterday, even as asbestos re­ pany that was doing asbestos removal moval teams combed lower Manhattan work on downtown buildings yester­ streets. day. “We have found no levels of asbestos Reached in Beijing, China,iSr John or any pollutants that raise concern,” Rosen, headjjf-the Division of Environ­ said Geoffrey I^an, a spokesman for mental Sciences at Montefiore Medical the city Department of Environmental Center in the Bronx, said he had grave Protection. reservations about what little testing I^an said DEP employees^ontinue has been done at the site so far. to take daily air samples around the “For the ERA to say there is no con­ city, while the state Department of Envi­ cern does not convince me,” said ronmental Conservation collects data Rosen, who noted that adequate testing from 25 fixed monitoring stations. takes more time than has passed since All have shown pollutants to be with­ the attack. in safe levels, he said; still, asbestos has “To do (air quality monitoring) prop­ been measured in the air and found in erty,” he added, “you have to get in a he­ the debris-choked streets. licopter.” “There’s plenty of asbestos dust Susan Ferraro and Clem Richardson

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