Re: Re: County Law books to be cleaned of mold (Athens, Texas)

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Since the books have mold, they will probably be a total loss. I venture to say cleaning them won't work.I have known Judge Holland in , sat this Courthouse, for many years, and my heart goes out to the folks there. It has proven to be a costly endeavor.

Carroll-Bower,NTMC

grasshoppers53527 <keng@...> wrote: Get the word out! A $15 humidity meter could have prevented this loss of $50,000 of books, building damage, and I bet several sick people. When are we going to focus on prevention instead of after the fact damage to people and property?> http://www.athensreview.com/display/inn_news/news15.txt> > August 1, 2002> > Law books to be cleaned of mold> By Stone> > County officials haven't been able to remove the mold from the law library,> so they've decided to move the law library from the mold.> > The commissioners court voted unanimously Monday morning to authorize County> Judge Aubrey to negotiate a contract with Lake Area Restoration, a> Kemp-based company that specializes in mold decontamination.> > For the cost of $3 a book, Lake Area Restoration has agreed to clean the> mold off the books in the law library and store them until the county needs> them back. The county has between 3,000 and 3,500 law books, said , so> the cost will be around $10,000.> > The books will be cleaned with a filtered vacuum and treated with a biocide> wipe. They will then be moved from the library to a storage facility owned> by Lake Area Restoration, where they will be re-vacuumed and treated with> biocide again, stored in a low-humidity environment and inspected before> being brought back to the county. Lake Area Restoration's proposal only> includes storing the books for a month.> > The cost of having the books cleaned is less expensive than spending the> money to replace them a second time, pointed out. The presence of mold> prompted the disposal of law books last year, at a replacement cost of> $28,000. Those same books are now infected.> > The county has recently had an assessment of the mold issue done and is> waiting on the results. But no matter what the results of the testing, it> will still be awhile before the problem is fixed, said .> > "We need to do something (with the books) in the interim until we can get> the humidity removed from the library," said . "This is where the mold> problems and the humidity problems are the worst."> FAIR USE NOTICE:This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.