EPA Testing 150 Lower Manhattan Buildings (to discover even more remains from the WTC)

1010wins ^ | 5/11/05

[Libloather]

EPA Testing 150 Lower Manhattan Buildings
May 11, 2005 11:53 am US/Eastern
(1010 WINS)

(NEW YORK) Dust samples from 150 New York buildings in lower Manhattan and part of Brooklyn are to be gathered by the Environmental Protection Agency to find out how much indoor contamination might remain from the collapse of the World Trade Center.

EPA officials say the samples will determine what should be cleaned and whether to launch a broader cleanup effort. The EPA says samples will be analyzed for lead, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, asbestos and manmade vitreous fibers.

Residents and workers in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn sued the EPA last year, saying it improperly allowed thousands of people to return to their homes and businesses and made misleading statements about air quality after the September Eleventh, terrorist attacks. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

EPA defended itself by praising the staff's monitoring and sampling of air, dust and river and drinking water as "remarkable feats." It says it provided thousands of respirators for response workers and cleaned and tested thousands of homes in lower Manhattan.

[Libloather]

Hillary maybe worried about Mexico. Doesn't she have a home state?

[Jaysun]

As if the EPA isn't overzealous enough.

I wish they'd put the EPA on a boat to the Bermuda triangle.

[VeniVidiVici]

Residents and workers in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn sued the EPA last year, saying it improperly allowed thousands of people to return to their homes and businesses and made misleading statements about air quality after the September Eleventh, terrorist attacks. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

Couldn't they have just left again?

[thoughtomator]

If the EPA is going to exist at all, this should be its main business. (I do share the opinion that it shouldn't exist at all.)

[ruiner]

I hate to point out the obvious, but how in hell are they going to prove any "dust" has anything to do with 9/11?

[Libloather]

...how in hell are they going to prove any "dust" has anything to do with 9/11?

The same way they know your socks stink. (BTW, I don't think it is you, specifically, adding to man's overall history. But if you wish to be part of the group, please acknowledge that certain 'things' may happen on the road. Thanks in advance...)

Archaeologists find 'Britain's oldest shoe'
James Sturcke and agencies
Tuesday May 10, 2005

A 2,000-year-old shoe uncovered at a Somerset quarry. Photograph: Exeter Archaeology/PA

Archaeologists excavating a quarry in Somerset claim to have found Britain's oldest shoe, believed to be 2,000 years old. They said the shoe, which was found at Whitehall Quarry, near Wellington, was the equivalent to a modern size 9 or 10, and was so well preserved that the stitching and lace holes were visible in the leather.

It was taken to a specialist conservation centre in Salisbury, Wiltshire, and was expected to go on display at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter.

A team from Exeter Archaeology, led by Stephen Reed, came across the shoe while excavating close to a Saxon iron smelting site that was discovered in 1989. They found a Bronze Age "industrial" site consisting of two mounds and two water-filled troughs. Nearby were two timber-built wells, preserved by waterlogging and probably dating from the early part of the Iron Age (700 BC - AD 43). One of these wells had been constructed over a spring using a hollowed tree trunk set into the ground.

"As far as we know, this is the oldest shoe ever found in the UK," Mr Reed said. "These finds are of national importance due to the rarity of the survival of wood from this period and the presence of diagnostic tool marks on the sides of the timber, which suggest it dates from the Iron Age. It is reasonably well-preserved, with stitch and lace holes still visible in the leather."

The shoe measured approximately 30cm, suggesting its owner was male, archaeologists said.

There is uncertainty over why the shoe was in the well. It may have been left for symbolic reasons when the site was closed or simply lost in the mud within the spring. It was hoped that analysis of the shoe would reveal how it was made and the type of leather.

[sgtbono2002]

EPA officials say the samples will determine what should be cleaned and whether to launch a broader cleanup effort. The EPA says samples will be analyzed for lead, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, asbestos and manmade vitreous fibers.

How about the pieces of 3,000 people who were never found.

[Jaysun]

If the EPA is going to exist at all, this should be its main business. (I do share the opinion that it shouldn't exist at all.)

The more I look at things like the EPA, the more I realize that the only thing I really liked about Nixon was his voice. The guy had a great voice - raspy, deep, made for radio.

[taxesareforever]

There must be a lot of money just waiting to be spent by the government. Can't get rid of it fast enough. Let's use it in New York, Sen Clinton country. Aw, doesn't that feel goooood.

[SierraWasp]

"I wish they'd put the EPA on a boat to the Bermuda triangle."

Oh, I so wholeheartedly agree with you... BUT... send those danged residents and workers that I call the suers on that triangulation tour, will ya???