Glen Cove High School has closed its auxiliary gym after tests found its floor leaking mercury vapor at concentrations nearly four times the legal limit. In an announcement posted on Aug. 1, Glen Cove ...
MERRICK, Nassau County (WABC) -- Three schools on Long Island have shut down parts of their school buildings because of mercury vapor in the air. A recreational area at Norman J. Levy Lakeside School ...
GLEN COVE, N.Y. (1010 WINS) — A Long Island school district found levels of mercury in three of its gym floors, causing concern among parents whose children have been exposed. In a letter to the ...
The Glen Cove School District has removed all gym flooring in the middle and high schools found to contain and leak mercury vapor, with the high school’s auxiliary gym testing at nearly four times the ...
The Glen Cove High School auxiliary gym floor is being replaced after testing found mercury vapor levels nearly four times the limit allowed by the state, according to district officials. Test results ...
Gym class has been relocated in eight Washington Township schools as district officials weigh what could be a $3.2 million plan to replace rubber flooring that’s been emitting a mercury vapor into the ...
Once broken, a compact fluorescent light bulb continuously releases mercury vapor into the air for weeks to months, and the total amount can exceed safe human exposure levels in a poorly ventilated ...
The state Education Department on Wednesday requested all New York schools conduct an inventory of rubberlike floors and recommended testing them for mercury, after three Long Island schools shut down ...