NYC-WTC_000230628

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

daily FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2^, 2001

Stuyvesant HS to get stringent air tests ■ isBi BV ALISON GENOAR DAILY NEWS STAFF WHITER Crews are cleaning Stuyvesant allow for nearly a week of air quality testing by the Board of Education, the United Federa- I High School round the clock, but tion of Teachers and experts parents and teachers have enlist- working for the Stuyvesant par­ ed their own experts to deter- cuts' association. mine whether it is safe to return. The tentative reopening date Two 80-man crews are power- for the elite, science-oriented vacuuming air ducts of debris school is Oct. 9. Zumwalt' dust, replacing carpeting and “We will begin testing, espe- [jiJiTOrOT TOO CLOSE _ - s, hosing down the 10-stoty build- daily for air quality, next Thurs- 111*34X0 Stuyvesant High School, near the site of World , , ing tn a scramble to reopen it on day, and if we are unsatisfied Hade Center, will be carefully Inspected before It Is reopened. ' Oct. 9. with the results, we will make a The building is so close to the different decision about reopen- schedule for taking samples in­ “Open trucks full of debris are site of the Sept. 11 attacks that ihg Oct. 9.” said Karen Finney, a side the high school. going up the West Side Highway. the school’s Web site described it spokeswoman for Schools Chan- Marilena Christodoulou, presi- Open barges are going op the riv­ as “In the shadow of the World cellor Harold Levy. dent of the Stuyvesant parents’ er. Every time they dig further, Trade Center." Dust samples taken by the fed- association,saidhergroupenlist- more fumes are released. Until It was used as an emergency Environmental Protection ed three private firms to run inde- that stops, the schools should command and staging area for Agency outside Stuyvesant on pendent health and safety tests not be opened," said Joel Kupfer- rescue efforts before being Sept. 19 found asbestos levels to ensure the board keeps its man of the New York Environ­ turned back over to the Board of were twee the allowed figures, pledge to condurt the most ngor- mental Law and Justice Project. Education Tuesdav accordmg to agency spokeswom- eus air and safety tests available. EPA reported that 11 dust sam­ The exolosions and collanse of ^n Mary Helen Cervantes. “Parents’ greatest concern is ples taken around the perimeter . the llO^storv towers CMted However, air samples taken tha.t there is ongoing, daily moni- of Ground Zero Sept. 23 showed ««*>5;hW«h~ls.p..22 no readings for asbestos-contain­ ing matenal. crated d.brts o, th. buUdines Similar cleanup and testing and sent waves of smoke and _ below federal haz- whether Stuyvesant or any of the also is being done at another dust as far as Brooklyn. ardous levels seven other evacuated schools evacuated sen*loot, I»ublic School Environmental cleaning crews araousi^is. should reopened while excava- 150 on Greenwich St. and Inde­ are expected to finish the work Wr quollty COlICCm bon continues at the trade center pendence Plaza. No reopening at Stuyvesant next Wednesday to The EPA is putting together a site. date has been set.

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