[CPEO-BIF] Vapor intrusion investigation at Hanes and Lowrance middle schools, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Emory recommends testing air at Hanes, Lowrance as parents call for schools to be shut down

by Arika Herron and Bertrand M. Gutierrez
Winston-Salem Journal (NC)
January 27, 2015 

Beverly Emory, superintendent of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, on Tuesday recommended immediate testing of air quality at Hanes and Lowrance middle schools as parents urged school officials to shut the schools down.

The call-to-action was made during a sometimes-chaotic meeting of the Forsyth County Board of Education – days after the Journal reported that the two schools sit near a hazardous waste site that state regulators have flagged as one of the worst in North Carolina.

The contamination poses two key issues: whether the air is safe for student and teachers at Hanes and Lowrance now and whether the school system should move ahead with plans to build a $15.4 million school on the site to replace Lowrance. The district will take up the construction issue next week. Emory said the immediate priority is ensuring the nearly 1,200 students and teachers are safe and that parents feel comfortable sending their kids to school.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/emory-recommends-testing-air-at-hanes-lowrance-as-parents-call/article_0be4c7e4-a6a9-11e4-b8e4-23d1dee29728.html


See also
http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/emory-changes-mind-on-site-of-new-school/article_480efd6e-a9c6-11e4-820f-631e184ca403.html?mode=jqm
http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/schools-sit-on-contaminated-earth/article_2cea7cc4-a43b-11e4-b12a-e7379fc9680a.html?mode=image&photo=5
http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/teachers-told-air-quality-ok-at-hanes-lowrance-schools/article_232947d4-a5cf-11e4-9a0c-137cfbe6b06b.html
http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/site-at-paisley-could-be-option-for-lowrance/article_f49e6e96-a712-5aaf-9c72-a4c97eba9b6e.html
http://www.journalnow.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-school-board-must-take-quick-action-on-contamination-issue/article_a73662a4-ab16-11e4-8aa7-b324db19a60e.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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