Did You Know?

 

• Did you know that the Talbot-Middle-School was proactively tested for PCBs?
• Did you know about the PCB sampling of buildings in San Francicso?
• Did you kow that PCBs Could Pose RIsk for Property Buyers and Sellers, and Affect Values?
• Did you know that New York Lawyers for the Public Interest representing New York Communities for Change filed a Notice of Intent to sue the NYC Department of Education and School Construction Authority under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act?
• Did you know that the Westport School PCB clean-up will cost over $2 million dollars?
• Did you know that Ray Wiley, manager of Bridgeport's chool construction projects said that Oscar's Abatement of Hartford caused a breach of the PCB containment by letting the contamination go further into the building, necessitating additional cleaning and testing?
• Did you know about the PCB light ballast lawsuit against NYC?
• Did you read about PCB contamination in roof glue at Westport Middle School?
• Did you know that the Yorktown School District and Monsanto agreed to a settlement?
• Did you read the NYC City Council's letter to EPA Regional Administrator Enck?
• Did you read NYS Assemblywoman Rosenthal's Proposed Legislation?
• Did you see the photos of PCB-Caulking at the Worcester Public Schools?
• Did you read about the teacher's union taking their own samples up in Massachusetts?
• Did you know about PCB contamination due to light fixures in NYC schools?
• Did your know about the PCB contamination at the Estabrook School District?
• Did you the parents and pols urge city for PCB testing at 740 schools across New York
• Did you know that the NYC Pilot Study found elevated PCB air levels in Broooklyn School PS 309?
• Did you read EPA's rejection of NYC DOE's Remedial Investigation Work Plan?
  Did you read Bronx Borough President Diaz's letter to EPA?
• Did you read about Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM).?
• Did you read EPA's settlement with the New York City Board of Education?
• Did you know about the EPA's website on PCBs in caulk?
• Did you know about EPA's Air Exposure Estimator Tool?
• Did you know that the Connecticut Technical High School System will test caulk at 12 of its older, un-renovated buildings for the presence of PCBs
• Did you read PCBs in Schools and Corporate Responsibility for Remediation: Yorktown Central School District v. Monsanto Company by Law Professor Valerie Watnick
• Did you know about the Coalition for PCB-Free Schools?
• Did you that a parent in the Bronx filed a lawsuit against the NYC Board of Education to remove contaminated caulking?
• Did you read the lawsuit filed by the Yorktown School District against Monsanto?
• Did you know that Congressmen Crowley and Serrano successfully included PCB cleanup in the National Green Schools Initiative?
• Did you know that New York State Assemblymember Rosenthal introduced a bill to mandate testing for PCBs?
• Did you know that a number of New York City pubic schools have hazardous levels of PCBs in the window and masonry caulking?
• Did you know that a number of New York City public schools have PCB contaminated soil?
• Did you know that schools built between the 1930s to 1980 can have hazardous levels of PCBs in the window and masonry caulking?
• Did you know that PCBs in window caulking can volatize into your child's classroom?
• Did you know that in utero exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls in concentrations slightly higher than those in the general population can have a long-term impact on intellectual function?
• Did you know that studies have found elevated blood levels of low chlorinated PCBs in children and teachers attending schools with PCBs window caulking?
• Did you know that PCBs can leak out of joint sealant and contaminate the surrounding soil and indoor air?
• Did you know that as a result of PCBs in the window caulking, the Yorktown Central School District, New York removed 40 feet of PCBs contaminated soil extending out from the eastern side of the school building, and 10 feet of soil extending out from the rest of the building?
• Did you know that the masonry caulking on the front columns at the French Hill Elementary School in Yorktown Heights had 60,000 ppm of PCBs (equivalent to 6.0% PCBs)?
• Did you know that PCBs had migrated/leached to the surface of masonry caulking? The wipe sample of the caulk yielded 22,700 ug/100 cm2.
• Did you know that a piece of window caulking from the French Hill Elementary School contained 277,600 ppm of PCBs?
• Did you know that a building at the University of Rhode Island was contaminated due to PCBs in the window caulking and other building materials?
• Did you know that SUNY Oswego has PCBs contaminated soil?
• Did you know that Mahar Hall at SUNY Oswego had PCB-laden window caulk?
• Did you know that New Bedford High School has PCB contaminated caulk and soil?
• Did you know that the University of Massachusetts at Amherst has PCB contaminated caulk and soil?
• Did you know that the library at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst had PCB contaminated indoor air?
• Did you know that construction workers who handle caulking material generally have no knowledge of its PCBs content and may contaminate themselves and your child during the removal process?
• Did you know that the Stockholm Convention requires governments to take steps to reduce the release of PCBs with the goal of their minimization and, where feasible, ultimate elimination?
• Did you know that PCBs can also be absorbed through the skin following contact with contaminated caulking, equipment, water, or soil?
• Did you know that the standard procedure to carry out sanitation of PCB-containing sealants is to carefully remove the sealant with a knife and then grind 1-2 mm in the concrete?
• Did you know about the EPA Draft Approval and Denver Water Plan to Encapsulate PCB Contaminated Concrete at the Martson Basin #4?
• Did you know that schools are not mandated to test for PCBs in caulking?