UPDATED: Dec. 15, 2021, with information about consent decree with Abatement Specialties. Just a few years after being ordered to create educational videos to settle asbestos violations at Washington High School, the Cedar Rapids Community School District has been ordered to pay a penalty for similar violations at Kennedy High School. Under the settlement with […]
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Worker: Cedar Rapids Washington students...
By Cindy Hadish/Homegrown Iowan The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has released a recording of the Environmental Protection Commission’s meeting regarding asbestos removal at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids. Homegrown Iowan obtained a copy of the nearly 3 1/2-hour long audio recording through an open records request. Public comments from 16 subcontractors on the […]
Cedar Rapids Washington asbestos case se...
Some of the people testifying at an Environmental Protection Commission meeting Tuesday, Feb. 16, said staff members and students were in areas of Washington High School where they could have been exposed to asbestos. The commission voted unanimously after the public hearing to refer the Cedar Rapids School District case, and that of Abatement Specialties, […]
Cedar Rapids Washington asbestos case go...
By Cindy Hadish/Homegrown Iowan A state commission will decide whether or not to refer a case involving the Cedar Rapids Community School District to the Attorney General’s Office for further enforcement. The Environmental Protection Commission will take up the question regarding asbestos removal at Cedar Rapids Washington High School at its meeting Feb. 16, 2016. […]
State official maintains he saw students...
By Cindy Hadish/Homegrown Iowan Iowa’s top asbestos official stands by his observations of the asbestos removal at Washington High School, even as the Cedar Rapids School District tries to raise questions about the report. Tom Wuehr said when he visited the school this summer in response to a complaint about asbestos removal during school renovations, […]
Report: asbestos removal at Washington H...
UPDATE (Dec. 7, 2015) The agenda item on asbestos has been postponed until January or February. Kelli Book, attorney for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, said school district officials are meeting with the DNR and Abatement Specialties is being allowed the same opportunity. The Cedar Rapids School District issued a response to the report. […]
Derelict Building program helps rural Io...
Small towns in need of help improving their building stock in an environmentally responsible way can apply to Iowa’s Derelict Building Grant program. The deadline for submissions is Feb. 28. Towns such as the Eastern Iowa community of Olin have benefited through building renovations and asbestos abatement, with an emphasis on recycling and reusing building […]