Thursday, January 3, 2013
Mold still a major problem
From CBS 2:
Life after Superstorm Sandy includes a health hazard that is sometimes pesky, sometimes serious and continues to keep many out of their homes.
Now some are saying the city should be doing more to help get rid of it.
It’s the fungus you don’t want to find at home, yet Derek Casey is one of the many stuck with mold after Sandy’s waters flooded his Rockaway condominium, leaving him wondering if the government will ever come and help remove it.
“The mold is here and we’re what eight weeks later and it’s still growing. We should have had it removed by now,” Casey told CBS 2′s Sean Hennessey.
Casey’s uncertainty is spreading along with the mold.
“I’m very concerned about what we cannot see more so than what we can see,” he said.
City Hall is being accused of not doing enough.
A new survey by the New York Communities for Change said 65 percent of Rockaway residents still have mold or paid for its removal and that “..mold has been growing in thousands of households.”
The problem is so prevalent the survey said more than a third of the homes in the Rockaways have mold.
6 comments:
"Now some are saying the city should be doing more to help get rid of it."
Are there any problems that we don't need the government to help fix ?
My concerns are the invisible health hazards that are not being addressed.
What pathogens were in that sewage that was in the water?
What brownfield toxins leached through encasement efforts or simply was stirred up from the bed of streams and sewers?
I have sympathy for these people, but why is it on the government to come and and fix private homes that were knowingly bought near an ocean???
Same thing is happening with the Banking, Oil, and energy industries.
Privatizing the profit (people get to live near a nice summer beach) and socializing the risk (someone else will pay for any problems).
Privatizing the profit (people get to live near a nice waterfront) and socializing the risk (someone else will pay for any problems).
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Sorry, you have to ask Jimmy Van Bramer and Peter Vallone about that.
They have been doing that with infrastructure costs for years.
There are plenty of people who live in apartments that have mold and their landlord will not do anything about it. They have to make complaints to Housing Preservation and Development just so the landlord gets a warning and a slap-on-the-wrist fine. If the city is going to remove the hurricane victims' mold it is only fair that everyone else get the same treatment.
Well, then, ban blue cheese, Mr Mayor!
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