Mold found at Crystal Lakes Elementary will cost school district $1 million

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Mold found at Crystal Lakes Elementary will cost school district $1

million

Palm Beach Post - FL*

By DON JORDAN

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Thursday, March 13, 2008

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/south/epaper/2008/03/1

3/0313skmold.html

Mold damage uncovered during a Crystal Lakes Elementary renovation

will cost the school district nearly $1 million to clean up and push

the project back nearly five months.

Workers found the mold while replacing the air-conditioning system

at the suburban Boynton Beach school, 6050 Gateway Blvd.

Members of the school district's Construction Oversight Review

Committee unanimously voted today to recommend the clean up to the

school board, which is expected to approve the work next week.

" When we have a problem, we need to attack it, " facilities

management chief ph Sanches said. " We want to make sure our

teachers and our kids are in a safe environment. "

The problem includes mold damage to cabinets, floors, wood molding

and shelving. Crystal Lakes is one of more than a dozen schools with

persistent mold problems designed by the now-defunct Frizzell firm.

The schools were built with air-conditioning systems that did not

properly eliminate moisture from the building, Sanches said.