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Infestation News
High school closed for mold remediation
Cleaning and Maintenance Management
Online, 9/17/02
MARYVILLE, TN — After closing Heritage High School for 20 days due to mold
infestation, remediation is underway in all 51 classrooms. According to
The Daily Times, some students had reportedly become ill due to
the mold.
Work includes:
Replacing damaged insulation and ceiling tile,
Inspecting and cleaning
heating and air conditioning units and
Replacing carpet with vinyl tile.
Mold may scrap $57 million building
being purchased by school district
Cleaning and Maintenance Management
Online, 9/23/02
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, CA — A deal between the Los Angeles Unified School
District to
purchase the Department of Water and Power office building for $50 million
last year, has stalled due to
evere mold infestation. So severe, in fact, that
the building may have to be torn down, the
LA Daily News
reported. Now city officials are suing the contractors that built the
building for $20 million.
The building was built in 1992 for $57 million, the
Daily News reported. The suit charges that faulty
workmanship and inferior construction materials provided by McCarthy Western
Constructors Inc. and
other contractors have caused water damage.
The 40-acre land may still be purchased so a new school can be built
Volunteers move out contents of mold
infested school in Prescott
{Published Monday, September 23, 2002 8:06:00 AM CDT). Associated Press
PRESCOTT, Wis. -- A
caravan of volunteer trucks, trailers and semi trucks spent part of the
weekend moving the contents of a middle school closed for mold infestation
to a new school about 20 miles away.
People showed up early Saturday morning at Prescott Middle School to move
desks, books, shelves, globes and maps to Ellsworth.
The Prescott school is closed indefinitely because of mold found in 12 of
its classrooms.
"There is great community
support here," Prescott Superintendent Roger Hulne said. "The move began at
9 a.m., and half an hour later more than 100 names appeared on the
volunteers' sign-in sheet."
The sixth through eighth-graders have been taking field trips since the
school closed, but officials expect them to resume classes at the Ellsworth
school as soon as Tuesday.
The Ellsworth School Board offered to rent the unused second floor of its
junior high school for $4,000 a month.
Although many volunteers agreed the situation wasn't ideal, they thought
the move to Ellsworth would be positive.
Debbie Eggers, mother of a Prescott Middle School student and wife of one
of the school's teachers, said Ellsworth is the best alternative.
She said the school board looked at churches and other schools in the
area, but the Ellsworth school met their needs the best.
"It's something that has to be done," said Eggers. "It's just too bad we
couldn't pass the referendum before this."
Referendums to improve or replace the school have been defeated several
times in the last few years.
Parent's test raises concern
at school
HILTON HEAD ISLAND: Father's science project calls air quality -- and
security -- into question.
By
Stephanie Broadbent
Carolina Morning News
, Sept. 25, 2002.
A parent with a petri dish cultivated a
concern about mold at Hilton Head Elementary School that is costing the
school district thousands of dollars.
Armed with mold testing supplies purchased from a "mold lab" found advertised on the
Internet, a student's father allegedly sneaked around his child's classroom,
hiding petri dishes earlier this year. Then he went back to collect the
samples and sent them to the lab, said Beaufort County Schools spokesman
John Williams.
The lab allegedly tested the samples, said it found mold and sold the
parent mold-killing grapefruit-seed-extract misters that he installed in his
child's classroom, without telling anyone.
The misters were found a short time later and removed, Williams said. The
parent then shared the mold report with school staff and other parents.
That concern prompted the school district to hire AAA Environmental, to
test for mold.
"Our interest was whether or
not the petri dishes were sterile to begin with, what controls there were to
make sure they weren't contaminated," Williams said.
AAA Environmental of Spartanburg did its first check of the school in
April. It found "no elevated levels of mold," but made recommendations,
which included cleaning carpet and air conditioning coils. The school began
implementing the advice immediately, Williams said, and asked the company to
return this week for more extensive testing.
The latest testing, which
began Tuesday and is scheduled to end today, will cost the school district
$10,000 to $12,000, Williams said. It also included testing in one area of
Hilton Head Middle School where rats nested in a ceiling over the summer.
The rodents were exterminated and the area cleaned, but the school district
wanted to make sure the air was clean.
AAA Environmental
is accredited in a wide range of environmental consulting service and has
been used by Beaufort County Schools for several years. They'll be honest,
not just give the school district a pat on the back, Williams said.
Recent air quality
investigations by the company at Battery Creek High School led the Board of
Education to approve a major duct-cleaning project and installation of a new
dehumidifying system that cost $2.7 million.
"We use certified, accredited experts
to test the air quality across the Beaufort County School District," said
Superintendent of Schools Herman Gaither. "If there's a problem, we'll
address it openly and publicly."
Results from the air
quality tests taken this week will likely not be back for several weeks but
will be shared with the public when they are returned, Williams said.
The parent's actions earlier
this year didn't only raise concerns about mold, but security at the school.
Although the father was known
to those at the school and parents are allowed full access to their
children's classrooms, even well-meaning parents can take actions that might
hurt students, Williams said.
"I'm not one to tend toward paranoia,
but after Sept. 11, 2001, we should all be a little more concerned about the
appearance of petri dishes containing unknown substances, as well as aerosol
misters squirting out who knows what, especially in the classroom," he said.
The concern wasn't about the
father, but anyone else who might have had access to the petri
dishes or
misters he apparently purchased by mail, Williams said.
"It's not like we had an
'intruder alert' situation," he said. "But we need our parents to know that
their best intentions may harm other students."
It doesn't even take tampering
to cause a problem. There is also the possibility that another student might
have an allergic reaction to misters like the one put in the classroom, he
said.
The child's father was
apparently motivated by the child's recurring respiratory problems. Williams
said he doesn't know if the child is still enrolled at the school.
Hilton Head Elementary
has 2,075 enrolled students and the school has averaged 11 illness-related
absences per day since school began Aug. 12.
"We take very seriously any
concerns about students' health and indoor air quality," Gaither said. "At
the same time, an average of 11 students sick per day, for all types of
illnesses, out of almost 2,100 children is a good indicator we have a clean,
healthy school and very healthy youngsters."
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