Newspaper clipping discussing allegations that the City Department of Transportation covered up lead test results following the September 11 attacks.
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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document
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Click: Three days after 9/11, city Department of Transportation officials hurriedly tare! arranged environmental testing at the agency’s headquarters at 40 Worth St, In
ll contamination in the building. Some tests showed lead levels 10 times higher than Juan Gomalei federal regulations allow for indoor dust, according to internal agency documents
Juan Gonzalez Is a Daily News columnist. The test results were especially significant because the SOstory office building that Email: jgonzalez@ houses DOT is located 10 blocks north of Ground Zero, in an area that City Hal! edit.nydailynews.com and the federal government reopened to hundreds of thousands of office workers
At the time, health officials kept insisting there was no threat to public health from the fires at Ground Zero. Early environmental tests, they said, showed no Past Columns worrisome contamination from asbestos or other toxic substances that were
The lead contamination at 40 Worth St. was a clear challenge to that official story.
Who could be sure there was no similar contamination in scores of other nearby
On the department's 10th floor, for example, where the office of Commissioner Iris COLUMNIST ARCHIVE Weinshall is located, a dust sample from a window near the elevator showed lead levels three times above federal safety standards.
The contamination there, however, was never publicly revealed by city officials who eventually posted thousands of environmental test results on a Web site of
The agency quietly notified its employee union, District Council 37, about the problem and hurriedly ordered the building's landlord to fix the problem.
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NYC-WTC_000153767
Log sheet or index page from the World Trade Center Gonzalez collection dated November 7, 2001.
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Fax header from DEP LRSU dated June 9, 2002, referencing an article titled 'Taking a Breath of [name]'.
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Internal DEP routing sheet with checkboxes for handling reports, comments, and coordination regarding WTC environmental data.
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Agenda listing panelists from federal agencies, unions, and city departments for a March 2004 conference on post-9/11 air quality.
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Report discusses physician statements that asbestos-related disease risks are slightly higher but very small for most people.
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Document excerpt listing counsel and staff members assigned to a paper on infrastructure related to World Trade Center recovery.
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Request for proposal documentation and vendor list for live operator services to assist with World Trade Center information inquiries.
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EPA news article forwarded to DEP staff for informational purposes regarding WTC-related environmental matters.
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Agenda for a conference on the public health impact of September 11, featuring presentations from EPA, OSHA, and DOH officials.
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Report stating federal funds will cover costs for cleaning potentially asbestos-laden dust from schools near Ground Zero.
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A record of communication between the Department of Environmental Protection and an official named Gonzalez regarding the World Trade Center.
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NYC-WTC_000153738
Newspaper clipping from Newsday dated August 27, 2006, discussing dissent over air quality at the World Trade Center site.
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Page containing a data table or log entries dated November 7, 2001, within the World Trade Center Gonzalez collection.
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Log sheet or index page from the World Trade Center Gonzalez collection dated November 7, 2001.
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