PCBs removed from CT tech schools
By ConnPolitics.tv Staff on Mar 7, 2010 | In News, Gov. Jodi Rell | 4 feedbacks »
Hartford, Conn. (AP) – A Connecticut state commission will consider spending $250,000 to replace contaminated caulking in three of the state’s technical high schools.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell says she expects the State Bond Commission to approve the allocation at its meeting later this month. She is that funding board’s chairman.
It will be used to replace caulking that contains polychlorinated biphenyls, also known as PCBs. That oily liquid was once mixed in caulk to make it more flexible.
It’s been banned in the U.S. since 1979 as a probable carcinogen, but can still be found in structures built or renovated before the ban.
The schools where the work will take place are in Meriden, Hamden and Windham. Tests are also under way at eight other state-run technical schools.
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Are you saying these schools havent been touched since 1979 ????????
Wait.....unless contractors used the building products made in CHINA......to do work since then and NOW for that matter......look at the damn " dry wall" crap that is happening..........
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