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Plans to expand Middle Park High School in Granby, Colorado, were delayed this summer when construction crews found more asbestos than expected during renovation work on the existing facility. The Sky-Hi Daily News, which covers Granby along with Winter Park and other cities in the region, says crews planned asbestos abatement as part of a 12-week project, but uncovered asbestos in vinyl flooring, which they had not anticipated.
Officials in the town of Dundee, New York, are assuring residents a ball field located adjacent to the International School there is safe for young people to play on, despite an asbestos abatement project underway inside the nearby buildings. A Wiffle ball field was recently created on the site when residents in a nearby town objected to the commotion from an existing field near their houses, according to a report in the Greenwich Post.
An Illinois power company recently obtained permission from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to try to remove chunks of asbestos and asbestos particles from sand dredged from a canal that draws water from Lake Michigan. This is the latest in a series of concerns about asbestos that wash up onto Illinois shores, including Illinois Beach State Park, dubbed Asbestos Beach by environmental watchdog groups.
A new report written by a physician practicing at the Center for Asbestos Related Disease (CARD) in Libby, Montana, predicts an epidemic of mesothelioma, an asbestos-related cancer, in the next 10 to 20 years. The report was featured in a report by the Daily Inter Lake, which serves northwest Montana.
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