GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (via WOOD TV 8) — Grand Rapids Public Schools officials and more than 200 parents met on Saturday over concerns of asbestos at an elementary school.
For about six weeks, construction crews have been doing work on the North Park Montessori School's air conditioning system. On Friday, the team told Grand Rapids Public Schools that the plaster they drilled into may contain asbestos.
On Saturday afternoon a meeting was held to discuss the situation.
In the meeting GRPS spokesperson, John Helmholt, told attendees that construction work in January was the first of any potential exposure for asbestos in the drilled plaster. In actuality the exposure started in November 2018.
GRPS hired an enviornmental firm that had conducted testing in the area prior to the construction project starting in November. The firm knew there was some potential asbestos in the building that was built in 1924.
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