High School Mold
Complaints of mold
at Amity High
(Woodbridge-WTNH News Channel 8 with Sara
Welch, Sept. 23, 2002 11:55 PM) _ After years of battling air quality
concerns in their schools, parents and students in Bethany, Woodbridge,
and Orange are faced with another problem surfacing at Amity High School.
This time the focus is on mold and the
possibility of missing records.
"This
is totally precautionary," says Former Acting Superintendent Mike
Nast.
A
few weeks ago, the superintendent said some school board members
complained of itchy irritated eyes while holding a meeting in the high
school auditorium.
He says there have also been recent
moisture problems in the room and some suspect mold maybe growing.
"I just
to make sure we get a tests and we evaluate the test," says Nast.
Back in 1997, the auditorium was closed
because tested showed high levels of mold.
Amity
reportedly spent millions fixing the area, but Gil Cormier who performed
many of the tests, isn't sure all the areas were completely fixed.
"We had provided recommendations to
do some remediation, some remediation may have been done, but we don't
have, there's really no documentation to see exactly what was done,"
says Cormier.
Board
members want to fix that. School officials say so far there are no reports
of any illness but some say there's another problem.
Amity Environmental
Committee member Lorri Cavaliere says,"The nurses logs are nowhere to
be found and this happened a few years ago and it happened again."
"They are
approaching teachers that haven't felt well and they are concerned and
want to know what is going to happen next and they attend meeting and
certainly voiced their opinions to board members," says Toby Zabinski,
teacher.
This summer there was a moisture problem
in the high school choir room.
School
officials say a broken pipe was fixed and the carpet replaced with tile
but Gil Cormier suspects more needs to be done.
"We really need to get an action plan
and the action plan needs to set some priorities to make sure that we
identify the most important things that we need to get done and right now
that's going to be the auditorium," says Cormier.
This maybe very costly. School officials
have secured a $100,000 grant to help pay for the plan.
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