Greenville school to clean up mold - 12/03/98 (Buena Vista Elementary School )

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Greenville school to clean up mold

by Associated Press

12/03/98

UPSTATE: Complaints of foul air at Buena Vista Elementary School in

Greenville sparked the find

GREENVILLE - Nearly 1,000 elementary students and teachers might be forced

into portable classrooms or another facility while workers clean up mold in

a Greenville County school.

Complaints of foul air at Buena Vista Elementary School started in

September.

A consultant last month found potentially dangerous levels of mold in three

classrooms and recommended vacating the school.

Additional studies found the mold came from a leaky roof and recommended

moving students while the school is cleaned one section at a time, district

spokesman Oby Lyles said.

The level of mold in the school was less than that of the out- side air,

Lyles said Wednesday.

Though the district says the mold is not a health problem, officials have

allowed a handful of students to temporarily attend other schools after

their parents complained of allergic reactions, Lyles said. District

officials will decide next week how to clean up the school, a process that

could take as long as seven months.

A few years ago, parents sued the Beaufort County School District after

students complained of moldy air.