Tag Archives: AHERA
Hollister Junior High Flooding Exposes Asbestos
Hollister R-V School District officials in Hollister, Missouri spent Wednesday, August 11, preparing for the new school year by opening the area’s high school to students from Hollister Junior High School, because of a leak in the junior high school building. Hollister Junior High, with its 28 staff members and 192 students, will be closed [...]
Leonia Elementary Parents Outraged over Announced Asbestos Removal during School
Methods for dealing with the issue of asbestos in U.S. schools are addressed in the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA), a provision of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) passed in 1986. The Act, which operates under the auspices of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), provides that all U.S. schools at any educational [...]
Texas State Technical College Trains for Asbestos
At Texas State Technical College (TSTC) in Harlingen, a handful of employees have been ordered to undergo special training in asbestos and lead removal, or remediation. These procedures, outlined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under its National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, or NESHAP, regulations, as well as Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response [...]
Gibsonville Elementary, Greensboro, North Carolina, Sidelined with Asbestos
Gibsonville Elementary School in Gibsonville, North Carolina, near Greensboro, is only one of many aging schools in the Guilford County School District that sits abandoned and deteriorating. Gibsonville Elementary, originally built to accommodate all ages of students when the area was less populated, was eventually converted to a grammar school. Then, in 2006, a new [...]
Pocatello, Idaho, Day Care Closed for Asbestos
In Pocatello, Idaho, near the southeast corner of the state, a facility providing child day care services for about 140 youngsters in the basement of United Methodist Church closed temporarily over the weekend to allow air quality tests for asbestos to be conducted after a fire nearly demolished the church chapel. Tender Loving Care Child [...]
Hurt Park Elementary Workers Turn Up Asbestos
At the end of the 2008-09 school year, workers at Hurt Park Elementary School in Roanoke, Virginia, began removing carpet in an effort to upgrade the school and turned up old, asbestos-laden floor tiles underneath. Workers, focused on the asbestos floor tile, rolled the carpet and loaded it into a truck bound for the local [...]
Asbestos Cleanup Well-Planned at Grandview Campus of COCC
Renovation at the Central Oregon Community College (COCC) campus in Grandview is proceeding, and by all indications according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) protocols. These AHERA standards require all primary and secondary schools to: inspect buildings for asbestos; develop plans to manage asbestos found; notify parents and [...]
Maryland State Government Refuses to Adopt Asbestos Regulations
Catonsville, MD – Residents in the Catonsville neighborhood of Westview Park are concerned for their health after the recent discovery of asbestos at a construction site in their area and are calling for the state government to take action. The asbestos was found on the construction site of construction company Enterprise Homes, which is currently [...]
School Missing Its Asbestos Removal Records
Phoenix, AZ – All school campuses in the Tempe Union High School District will undergo asbestos retesting because school officials are unable to find the records with the details of an asbestos removal that took place 15 years ago. The new project, which includes inspection and testing, is expected to cost less than $10,000. The [...]
