[Community_garden] Asbestos in Aurora, Colorado...Yikes!!!!

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It can always get interesting....

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Adam Honigman


Lowry Garden 
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(CBS4) AURORA, Colo. A construction contractor was digging next to a community garden in the Lowry neighborhood between Denver and Aurora when it accidentally created a major asbestos release last month.

Inspectors from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment caught the mishap as it was happening. They said on Aug. 30 a random inspection found chunks of asbestos in plain view and just a few feet from Lowry Community Garden.

Inspectors said the contractor, Lowry Assumption, had been working for 3 hours before the inspection began.

Officials said the contactor was in violation of state policy that prohibits any excavation at Lowry without a certified asbestos spotter on site.

"This is why we have the concern, why we have spotter out there, so we know what is exactly in the trucks and what could have been removed," said Jeff Edson of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

"He'd been here night before, essentially during the entire demolition," said Brent Anderson of Lowry Assumption. "So it was a very small window he was not here."

Since there were no air monitors present on the day of the release, the public health risk is unclear.

The health department did order Lowry Assumption to notify people who garden in the area. The company said it sent a letter to the city of Aurora.

Lowry Assumption has also been ordered to submit a clean-up plan to the health department. 


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