Happened during PCB removal project
By the Journal-Opinion
The lobby roof at Hardwick Elementary School started sagging last week after vertical supports were severed during work to clear the school of PCB chemicals.
The Hardwick Gazette reports that three wooden columns were installed as temporary supports to prop up the sagging roof.
The work is intended to remove window and door caulking with high levels of PCBs from eight classrooms.
“Workers at the school had been removing windows in the classrooms, where instructions were to cut the vertical dividers between them, which were not structural. … Three vertical supports between the lobby windows and doors were structural and were not to have been removed, but portions of all three were not in place Wednesday morning before 9:30 a.m.”