Mold delays Biddeford school opening

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August 31, 2006

Mold delays Biddeford school opening

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BIDDEFORD — Some Biddeford students will be enjoying a few extra

days of summer vacation, as a school deals with a mold problem.

Superintendent -Jane Poli said that Biddeford Primary School

will not open as scheduled next Tuesday because tests revealed high

levels of mold spores in the air.

Poli said the problem began in July, when carpets on the first floor

were cleaned on a hot, humid day.

The school has since been cleaned and decontaminated, and the school

department has hired an independent company for retesting, according

to Poli.

The results of the new tests will not be available until next

Wednesday, so the earliest the school will be able to open will be

next Thursday.

All other Biddeford schools are scheduled to open on time.

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1-5 of 5 comments:

Joanne of South Portland, ME

Aug 31, 2006 1:34 PM

Isn't the summer of about 10 weeks the time to take care of this

before the day before school is suppose to start. How about solving

the problem and saving some tax payers some money and take out all

the carpets in the school. Very simple!

irritated parent

Aug 31, 2006 12:54 PM

I am a bit upset that I had to find out about the delay in this

article. I am on the email list at the school and did not receive

anything informing me of this. Also, when the mold issue first came

about, I first heard of it on the 6:00 news, then the next day I got

the email. I'm also a little leary of sending my child back to the

school...Wednesday is when the testing will be done? They had

already tested a week or two ago and the staff was allowed back in,

so obviously they were wrong about the levels of mold spores that

time. Now they are going to test on Wednesday and if everything

looks good send the kids back on Thursday?? In my opinion it would

be safer to test on Wednesday, then have a retest a few days later

so to be SURE this time...before endangering the health or our

little ones.

d

Aug 31, 2006 12:29 PM

what to hell are rugs doing in a school , no wonder there is mold

MLM of portland, me

Aug 31, 2006 12:21 PM

Carpets? In a school in Maine? Yuck.

of Biddeford, ME

Aug 31, 2006 12:19 PM

You know..you think they would have found it out earlier about the

mold. I heard the recently had a new access control system

installed...perhaps the installer unearthed some mold in this

instance?

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