[CPEO-BIF] "Toxic Vapors Discovered Inside Oakland [California] School"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic Vapors Discovered Inside Oakland School
Students, faculty, and staff at an Oakland school may have been exposed to a harmful airborne chemical over the past decade. 

By Darwin BondGraham
East Bay Express (CA)	
August 5, 2016


According to state records, soil and groundwater samples recently collected from underneath the Oakland Charter High School and Oakland Charter Academy campuses, located in the same set of buildings at 345 and 301 12th Street, showed "elevated concentrations" of trichloroethylene (TCE) and other poisonous compounds. Air samples taken inside the school's buildings revealed vapors of TCE at levels exceeding safety limits set by the US Environmental Protection Agency. TCE is known to cause cancer and developmental and neurological problems, according to the EPA.

Officials with the Amethod Charter Schools organization, which runs both the middle school and high school currently located on the site, told the Express they were unaware of the pollution until May of this year. Amethod Charter Schools leases the buildings - former auto repair shops and garages - from the Richard S. Cochran and Susan L. Cochran Family Trust.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/08/05/toxic-vapors-discovered-inside-oakland-school

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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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