2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:59:37 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Asbestos removal test in Ft. Worth (TX)
 
Still in The Air

The fight over asbestos removal strategies isn't over, though the test 
in Fort Worth is.

By GAYLE REAVES
Fort Worth Weekly (TX)
December 19, 2007

The apartment office building at Oak Hollow was demolished using a 
controversial new asbestos removal method.

Once the preparations were done, it took only about an hour and a half 
on Monday morning for Environmental Protection Agency-supervised crews 
to knock down the little office building at an empty Woodhaven apartment 
complex.

But controversy over the demolition - a test of a proposed new method 
for removing asbestos contamination - is likely to continue well after 
the debris is carted off and the site leveled. Terry Lynch just hopes 
that the effects will be limited to controversy - and not to increasing 
the toll that he has seen asbestos exact from relatives and co-workers 
and members of his asbestos workers' union year after year.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=6554

-- 


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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