Firm finds asbestos at county care facility
By John Jennings Daily News Staff
The Jasper County Board of Supervisors have received a final report from a firm hired to determine if there is asbestos in the county’s former care facility buildings, and the tests have come back positive.
A crew from Ames Environmental Inc. of Slater inspected the sprawling care facility buildings on Dec. 21, 2009. Nearly 100 samples were taken, and 14 of those came back positive for some kind of asbestos material. Most of it was found in the floor tiles and roof areas, as well as in some construction materials.
Jasper County Supervisor John Parsons said the next step for the county was to create plans to mitigate the asbestos and get those plans approved by the Department of Natural Resources before the buildings can be demolished.
Ames Environmental has said that their company could provide the county with design plans for removal of the asbestos and send the information to contractors to complete the project.
The supervisors will discuss the issue at a future meeting.
