Interagency WTC committee coordination memo, April 2002

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Gilsenan, Michael From: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 01. 2002 9:56 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] ; [email protected]; rlc07 @health.state.ny.us; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Next conference call for the Indoor Taskforce COC/Benchmarks Committee

Let's discuss on the 2pm call today. ---- PQj-^^arded by Mark Maddaloni/R2/USEPA/US on 04/01/02 09:55 AM

Paul Giardina To: Mark Maddaloni/R2/USEPA/US@EPA 04/01/02 08:33 AM cc: jleightoghealth.nyc.gov, [email protected]. gov, [email protected], Michael DeBonis, John Girman/DC/USEPA/US@EPA Subject: Re: Next conference call for the Indoor Taskforce COC/Benchmarks Committee(Document link: Mark Maddaloni)

I guess you didn't realize I was gone from March 16- April 1.

I am getting a polling of our lAQ contractors who have been dealing with post-WTC clean up. The word I got before I left is most of them were dealing with mold issues either due to water intrusion, humidity issues, or internal building leaks caused by the sudden loss of power.

Unofficially I know the following companies [see list below] have dealt with mold issues and all of these companies saw this as a human health issue as employees apparently reacted unfavorably to the mold conditions, or the mold was so bad that the building wasn't fit for occupancy.

Verizon Con Edison Standard and Poors CMS [?].

I might add, these are the only four companies that I talked to about post WTC recovery, as I did this in the time period immediately thereafter, and before we were back in our office. Subsequent to that, I forwarded all Inquiries to the city.

I have also had contact with a couple of MDs who were treating patients with upper respiratory distress in the months immediately after the incident and they reported a possible cause was mold and moisture problems in the work place.

In the case of one of the companies mentioned above, they had to remove the entire contents of the building including walls, right down to the structural steel, to get rid of the mold problems. In short, I know there are mold problems associated with the WTC attack and there is reason to suggest that some of these problems are related to some of the health situations being reported. Without actually polling our lAQ consultants, I cannot tell you what the percentage is, however. 1

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