SCC to tear down part of Neptune school because of mold problem

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SCC to tear down part of Neptune school because of mold problem

Newsday - Long Island,NY

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NEWARK, N.J. -- The state's troubled schools construction program

has decided to tear down a portion of a nearly completed Neptune

school because of mold contamination.

The Schools Construction Corp. said this week it will perform the

demolition work at the Midtown Community School to get rid of gypsum

the mold grew on, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported on its Web site

Wednesday.

The school, which was to open this fall, is now expected to be

ready, at the earliest, in the fall of 2008, officials said.

It's the second time the SCC, created to upgrade schools in poor

communities, has needed to tear down a building it commissioned.

In 2006, Trenton's partially built Luther King Elementary

School had to be torn down because there was contaminated soil

underneath.

The SCC is looking into whether it has legal claims to recover costs

in both cases.