Were the children of Hamilton Avenue School exposed to formaldehyde? The School District Teamster's Unionized Custodial Workers Are Saying That The Hamilton Avenue Classrooms Started Leaking Within Months Of Their Arrival.
The custodial staff is saying the classrooms were under some kind of warranty and could have been replaced at no additional cost to the taxpayers of the Town Of Greenwich.
The teamster members are also saying that they are afraid for their health as well as the health of the staff and children of Hamilton Avenue School.
Worse yet, the teamsters are saying they think the classrooms were evacuated and closed with in a day, because of formaldehyde. The union members speculate that the water reacted with the plywood glue in the walls and started emitting formaldehyde gas.
The custodial staff says that standard operating procedure for treating mold on walls has always been wash the walls with bleach, but they were ordered not to wash the walls with bleach.
Instead they were ordered to strip the walls of all plywood in day and to throw the plywood in a dumpster that was immediately carted away.
The Teamsters and School Officials have both said the classrooms or the plywood was never tested for Formaldehyde gas.
What was the rush?
Why was the plywood destroyed in less than 3 days?
What this a rush to destroy evidence?
Are the Teamster members going to suffer adverse health consequences for handling these contaminated pieces of plywood?
Have Hamilton Avenue School Children been breathing formaldehyde gas all along?
Can Hamilton Avenue parents trust the Board Of Education to protect their children?
The custodial staff says that standard operating procedure for treating mold on walls has always been wash the walls with bleach, but they were ordered not to wash the walls with bleach.
Instead they were ordered to strip the walls of all plywood in day and to throw the plywood in a dumpster that was immediately carted away.
The Teamsters and School Officials have both said the classrooms or the plywood was never tested for Formaldehyde gas.
What was the rush?
Why was the plywood destroyed in less than 3 days?
What this a rush to destroy evidence?
Are the Teamster members going to suffer adverse health consequences for handling these contaminated pieces of plywood?
Have Hamilton Avenue School Children been breathing formaldehyde gas all along?
Can Hamilton Avenue parents trust the Board Of Education to protect their children?
Greenwich School Administrators had better come clean before they end up getting thier butts sued by angry parents and taxpayer
MOST EVERYONE HAS HEARD OF THE
FEMA TRAILER
FORMALEHYDE EXPOSURES
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provided travel trailers and mobile homes starting in 2006 for habitation by Gulf Coast residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. Some of the people who moved into the trailers complained of breathing difficulties, nosebleeds and persistent headaches. Formaldehyde exposure can cause burning eyes and/or nose, coughing, difficulty breathing, headaches, and has been shown to be carcinogenic, causing nasal and nasopharyngeal cancer, and possibly leukemia as well.[13] Formaldehyde-catalyzed resins are used in the manufacture of engineered wood products such as particle board, medium-density fibreboard (MDF), plywood, and oriented-strand board (OSB), all of which have applications in site-built, and especially mobile homes and travel trailers.
The United States Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) performed indoor air quality testing for formaldehyde [14] in some of the units. On Thursday, February 14, 2008 the CDC announced that potentially hazardous levels of formaldehyde were found in many of the travel trailers and mobile homes provided by the agency.[15][16] The CDC's preliminary evaluation of a scientifically established random sample of 519 travel trailers and mobile homes tested between Dec. 21, 2007 and Jan. 23, 2008 (2+ years after manufacture) showed average levels of formaldehyde in all units of about 77 parts per billion (ppb). Long-term exposure to levels in this range can be linked to an increased risk of cancer, and as levels rise above this range, there can also be a risk of respiratory illness. These levels are higher than expected in indoor air, where levels are commonly in the range of 10-20 ppb, and are higher than the Agency for Toxic Substance Disease Registry (ATSDR, division of the CDC) Minimal Risk Level (MRL) of 8 ppb [17]. Levels measured ranged from 3 ppb to 590 ppb.[18]
MORE INFORMATION ON FORMALDEHYDE
Formaldehyde is an intermediate in the oxidation (or combustion) of methane as well as other carbon compounds, e.g., forest fires, in automobile exhaust, and in tobacco smoke. In atmosphere, formaldehyde is produced by the action of sunlight and oxygen on atmospheric methane and other hydrocarbons; thus, it becomes part of smog.
Although formaldehyde is a gas at room temperature, it is readily soluble in water. It is usually sold as a saturated aqueous solution with concentration of around 37% formaldehyde, stabilized with 10%-15% methanol. The commercial name is either Formalin or Formol. In water, formaldehyde converts to mostly the hydrate CH2(OH)2 or methanediol. A small percentage of methanol is usually added to these solutions to limit the extent of polymerization.
It Is EASY To Test For Formaldehyde...
The reagent chromotropic acid can be used in the quantitative determination of the presence of formaldehyde.
....That is if the Greenwich School Administrators had kept the contaminated plywood from the Hamilton Avenue School classrooms.
