[CPEO-BIF] "Franklin [Indiana] School Buildings Reopen Following Testing For Toxic Chemical"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Franklin School Buildings Reopen Following Testing For Toxic Chemical

By REBECCA THIELE
Indiana Public Media
March 29, 2019

Students will be able to return to Needham and Webb elementary schools in Franklin on Monday after the school district determined the buildings are safe.

High levels of the cancer-causing chemical TCE were found underneath the schools, prompting further testing inside the buildings during students' spring break.

“It will never be my intention to put a student or staff member back into a facility where there would be question of unsafe air quality,” says Superintendent David Clendening.

On Thursday March 21, the district decided to close the elementary buildings and have kids learn from home. Some samples taken underneath Webb Elementary’s first grade classrooms, for example, were two to three times higher than what the Indiana Department of Environmental Management considers safe.

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For the entire article, see
https://indianapublicmedia.org/news/franklin-school-buildings-reopen-following-testing-for-toxic-chemical.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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