November 29, 1993|By Donna E. Boller | Donna E. Boller,Staff Writer
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Westminster has had three projects in three years to abolish asbestos from borough buildings, and is starting a fourth.
The $14,287 arrangement to abolish asbestos from the anew acquired Longwell Borough Center, the above National Guard Arsenal on Longwell Avenue, is Westminster's better asbestos abatement activity to date.
The Burghal Board awarded the arrangement to Marcor Environmental Inc. of Elkridge aftermost week.
City admiral knew the old arsenal independent asbestos afore Mayor W. Benjamin Brown began negotiating to buy the architecture from the accompaniment in 1992.
A 1989 analysis prompted the Maryland National Guard to ask burghal admiral to column "Asbestos -- Hazardous" signs and to absolute admission to the basement boiler room, the armpit of the above absorption of asbestos.
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The basement housed the burghal Police Administration at the time.
Earlier abatement projects at the burghal aliment boutique on Railroad Avenue and at Burghal Hall accept complex baby amounts of asbestos, best of it acclimated as insulation for heating pipes.
"People apprehend [asbestos] is there and an anxiety goes off, which it should," said Thomas B. Beyard, the city's administrator of planning and attainable works. But burghal admiral accept to appraise how abundant asbestos is in a building, its action and area it is located, he said.
Asbestos was broadly acclimated for insulation for decades, until scientists apparent that inhaling its fibers can account lung problems that ambit from accessory irritations to mesothelioma, a anatomy of lung cancer.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency imposed a phased-in ban in 1989 that will bar the manufacture, use and consign of best asbestos articles by 1996.
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"When it comes to asbestos, a lot of bodies are beneath the delusion that all asbestos should be removed," said Michael Sullivan, a Maryland Administration of the Environment spokesman.
He said the administration recommends that owners of barrio absolute the actual analysis it consistently to see if it crumbles to the blow or has breaks.
Either action can acquiesce the fibers to be appear into the air, area bodies ability drag them.
Removing asbestos and an underground oil accumulator catchbasin from the Longwell Center are basic accomplish afore the architecture can be renovated, Mr. Beyard said.
Renovation affairs accommodate converting the basement for the burghal accounts department, authoritative the architecture attainable to the disabled and accretion amusement affairs space.
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Westminster's asbestos abatement projects accept been affiliated to renovations.
The accompaniment Administration of the Environment allows architecture owners to abbreviate asbestos. Mr. Beyard said encapsulation is accomplished in areas to which bodies don't accept access, but the burghal chose to abolish the actual because it would be difficult to do advance assignment while it remained in place.
"Most contractors and engineers accept problems alive in areas area you accept asbestos. It becomes a red flag," he said.
Westminster's beforehand asbestos abatement projects include:
* The aliment boutique in 1990. The job included abatement of 72 anxiety of aqueduct insulation from the boiler allowance and offices back a new boiler was installed. The amount was $1,658.
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* Burghal Hall in 1990. About 215 anxiety of aqueduct insulation was removed from the basement in renovations that created an appointment for the burghal cipher inspector. An added appointment was bare because the board assassin a burghal manager. That activity amount $3,875.
* Burghal Hall in 1993. Some 140 anxiety of aqueduct insulation was removed from clamber amplitude beneath aboriginal attic offices. The asbestos was apparent by architecture workers who were converting the amplitude to disabled-accessible restrooms as allotment of a beyond advance project. The asbestos abatement amount $2,960.
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