City Releases Mold Abatement Company

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City Releases Mold Abatement Company

by Wayne Wallen@ communitycommon.com

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Portsmouth Mayor Malone held a press conference on Friday, January 21 as

a part of the press conference he announced the company cleaning up the mold in

the former police department Serv-Pro was let go.

Peggy Burton, Health Commissioner for the Portsmouth City Health Department sent

a letter to Malone dated January 21 expressing some concerns on how Serv-Pro was

cleaning up the mold.

" It has come to my attention that Serv-Pro is not following the mold remediation

guidelines set forth by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration

(OSHA). This causes me considerable concern that the occupants of the building

may be exposed to an even greater variety of health effects, " Burton said.

" Because measures designed to protect the health of the public, are not being

followed it is my recommendation that Serv-Pro follow the procedures they

described to City council and in their contract or be let go. "

" It's my opinion that the clean-up work done thus far has created more

contamination than remediating, " Burton said in concluding her letter.

At the Portsmouth City Council meeting on Monday, January 24th Malone asked

council what their pleasure was in moving forward.

When the city solicited bids for the work two bids were received with Serv-Pro

being the best and lowest bid.

The city offered to pay Serv-Pro for there services that had been performed.

Malone said an invoice was received for less than $2,000.

" For this immediate problem (mold in the city building) the best option is to

abate the mold, until we can get a conciseness, " Haas Portsmouth City

Council President said in an earlier interview.

Haas pointed out that earlier in the year the city spent more than $50,000 to

replace the roof of the city building.

" At some point city council is going to have to pull the plug on this building.

We can not keep spending $75,000 dollars here and $50,000 dollars here. I do not

know what kind of building we could have had for the $120,000 or the $125,000

that's been spent on this building in maintenance alone, " Haas said.

In November council authorized $50,000 for mold remediation. At the time council

also requested the health department be involved to ensure the highest of

standards are met once the work begins.

After some debate council authorized Malone to approach the second bidder to see

if they could do the work.

The estimated time of completion is 30 days once work resumes.

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Funny, OSHA has only a technical bulleting on mold, released several years ago,

it is basically a copy word-for-word of the NYC Guidelines. It is NOT a legal or

regulatory requirement. I can't believe, or can I?, that a public health

department Commissioner would make such a mis-statement. I'd love to be involved

in the quality control on this one! I'm betting the overall quality is not

better and the cost goes up! AND, no one really knows the details, or ever will.

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> Portsmouth Mayor Malone held a press conference on Friday, January 21

as a part of the press conference he announced the company cleaning up the mold

in the former police department Serv-Pro was let go.

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> Peggy Burton, Health Commissioner for the Portsmouth City Health Department

sent a letter to Malone dated January 21 expressing some concerns on how

Serv-Pro was cleaning up the mold.

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> " It has come to my attention that Serv-Pro is not following the mold

remediation guidelines set forth by the Occupational Safety and Health

Administration (OSHA). This causes me considerable concern that the occupants of

the building may be exposed to an even greater variety of health effects, "

Burton said. " Because measures designed to protect the health of the public, are

not being followed it is my

[Guest guest]

OSHA will come and put their air testers(?) right near an open door.

Waste of time to call them for mold.

Barth

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SUBMIT YOUR DOCTOR: www.presenting.net/sbs/molddoctors.html

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S> Funny, OSHA has only a technical bulleting on mold, released several years

ago, it is basically a copy word-for-word of the NYC Guidelines. It is NOT a

legal or regulatory requirement. I can't

S> believe, or can I?, that a public health department Commissioner would make

such a mis-statement. I'd love to be involved in the quality control on this

one! I'm betting the overall quality is not

S> better and the cost goes up! AND, no one really knows the details, or ever

will.

S>

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>> City Releases Mold Abatement Company

>> by Wayne Wallen@ communitycommon.com

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http://communitycommon.com/bookmark/11167957-City-Releases-Mold-Abatement-Compan\

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>> Portsmouth Mayor Malone held a press conference on Friday, January 21

as a part of the press conference he announced the company cleaning up the mold

in the former police department

>> Serv-Pro was let go.

[Guest guest]

I'm so so sorry to hear the stories of pain and loss from the actions of this

company. Truely criminal.

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On 2011-02-04 16:21:41 +1100 dragonflymcs <dragonflymcs@...> wrote:

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> So so sorry,..................... I know they almost killed me. I went down

> to

> a size 4 pants and they were not fitting either. They are criminals in my

> eyes, untrained and do not know what they are doing.

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It is a Large National Company that i believe does not train it's employees,

nor are they qualified, or do they follow industry standards. they should have

their licenses yanked

God Bless !!

dragonflymcs

Mayleen

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From: Dana S <candalah@...>

Sent: Fri, February 4, 2011 12:29:37 AM

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I'm so so sorry to hear the stories of pain and loss from the actions of this

company. Truely criminal.

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On 2011-02-04 16:21:41 +1100 dragonflymcs <dragonflymcs@...> wrote:

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> So so sorry,..................... I know they almost killed me. I went down

> to

> a size 4 pants and they were not fitting either. They are criminals in my

> eyes, untrained and do not know what they are doing.

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True - the OSHA policy statement on mold is a technical bulletin, not a standard

or regulation. However, employers have an obligation to provide a safe

workplace for its employees (general duty clause).

Failure to follow recommendations in the OSHA technical bulletin can certainly

be viewed as a breach of duty on the party of the mold remediation contractor to

its employees. The city has a responsibility to the employees of the building.

Although the Commissioner's statement might not be technically correct, if work

practices do not minimally protect the remediator's employees, they are not

likely to protect the building employees and public visitors. I am glad to see

they at least took action.

Connie Morbach

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