[CPEO-BIF] Terradex posting on daycare and contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Protecting 6,000,000 Children In Daycare From Toxic Hazards of Cleanup Sites

by Bob Wenzlau
Terradex
August 12. 2010

Mix 400,000 daycares with 550,000 cleanup sites nationwide, and the 
vision takes shape for a national daycare screening service to 
vigilantly protect 6,000,000 children  from inadvertent exposure to 
toxics while at daycare.  This effort started in 2006 on the failings at 
Kiddie Kollege where children attending daycare were exposed to high 
mercury levels. The childcare facility occupied the same building that 
ten years earlier had been a thermometer assembly factory.  The 
environmental problems were known to environmental agencies, but were 
lost in the site investigation backlog. This post to The Monitor 
describes the progress made in New Jersey, as well as different 
approaches taken in California and New York toward an efficient 
state-wide daycare screening service. Terradex's role has been that as a 
technology provider introducing DaycareWatch as a screening tool. This 
progress at the state-level, coupled with work by the USEPA, provides 
the basis of a national daycare screening service.

This post draws upon a presentation by Terradex to the Association of 
State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (ASTSWMO) at 
their State Superfund Managers Symposium held on August 10 in 
Indianapolis, Indiana. Terradex plans a web conference on September 28, 
2010 (tentative) to overview various state and federal approaches to 
daycare safety – we invite your participation and interest using the 
signup link.

...

For the entire posting, see
http://blog.terradex.com/2010/08/12/protecting-children-at-daycare-from-contaminated-sites-a-progress-report/
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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