[CPEO-BIF] Information Technology High School (Queens, NY) air

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Information Technology High School air gets passing grade

BY JOHN LAUINGER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
October 4, 2007

City officials say a new round of testing proves the air quality at Long 
Island City's Information Technology High School is safe, but an 
environmental expert said the results for one toxic compound are borderline.

The new test was conducted on Sept. 22 - two days after parents and two 
City Council members questioned the validity of previous tests performed 
at the school, which occupies a former metal-plating warehouse 
contaminated with lead and petrochemicals.

Surprisingly, the Sept. 22 test results were not formally released by 
the Education Department. Instead, a union posted them yesterday in an 
anonymous memo on the school's Web site.

The posting said the levels of volatile organic compounds detected 
inside the school are "consistent with background levels measured in NY 
State and throughout the United States."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/queens/2007/10/04/2007-10-04_information_technology_high_school_air_g.html

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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>
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