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Last night, officials tested the air at the World Trade Center site for asbestos, as concerns over what searchers looking for September 11 remains may turn up as they uncover some areas that may not have been disturbed for five years. Deputy Mayor Ed Sklyer said, "In order to ensure worker safety during the search for remains, the city's Department for Environmental Protection will conduct ongoing air and material sampling at the affected locations. If any asbestos is detected, workers will use the proper protective gear."
Of course, this comes as other officials said they wanted more searching in 2002. WNBC 4 reports that the "project finished months ahead of city officials' yearlong prediction, and cost about $750 million -- just a fraction of the initial multibillion-dollar estimate," as the cleanup operation wanted to get their job done and make way for construction. Retired Police Lieutenant John McArdle, who was the NYPD's ground zero commander spoke to the AP:
"I knew that this was going to happen -- they really just wanted us out of there. "There was not a good exit strategy for some of these places, and if there was, it was poorly done....Mayor Bloomberg admits that there was pressure to complete the searches, and says that the city is committed to the current search. But construction will continue, since those areas have already been searched. Or so everyone thinks."There came a point in time when [Department of Design and Construction] said, 'We gotta try to wrap this up,' and they tried to expedite it as much as possible, and they jumped the gun, and now you have all of these families hurt and they're finding all these body parts."
The NY Times has an article about the toxic dust from September 11 and how doctors believe the dust did cause one woman's death five months later (while the city ME hasn't put her on the September 11 victims list). And other doctors found that search-and-rescue dogs who worked on September 11 have not gotten sick from any major illnesses.
Photograph of the World Trade Center site by Mary Altaffer/AP
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I find all this baffling. Wasn't the site scraped "down to bedrock?" If anyone can explain to me where all these secret locations where leg bones are now being found are actually situated I'd love to know.
Are you kidding me? Billions to find body parts of people we know are dead?? When is this nonsense going to stop? I believe someone last week summed this up best:
Didn't we pay these people millions of dollars to shut up?
i wish the b*thcing would stop and people would move on from this ... i mean, seriously! enough with the money grubbing, suing and back biting. enough already!
I don't buy it.
Somebody knew they were gonna turn up remains outside of the area they searched...in fact, I'll bet that someone in a decision-making position had proof of this serious issue and was told that it was too expensive. Soon enough that person or group will come forward with proof. That's why Bloomy's backpeddaling.
when two 110 story buildings collapse, bits and peices go flying for miles in every direction. Debris was falling across the harbor in Brooklyn. It is completely insane to expect to find all the remains, and anyone who is surprised that remains are still being found today is either a complete moron or a dishonest person bent on using the tragedy for personal gain. And that includes the families of the deceased, who benefit in no way from recovering a dried up bone fragment. If they feel they do, then that only means they need more therapy, not to sue the city.
Five Years?????
did the city think no one will find some more remains? This isn't about money, it's about poor leadership.
Despite reading the newspaper accounts I am a little unsure of the location of these manholes. An early Times story said "northwest corner" of the site and "below street level". Is that inside the fence but not in "the hole"? Is it in the hole? Near the footbridge?
And another article said they constructed a temporary road out of debris from "the pile". When did they stop using this road? Were these manholes considered to be abandoned by the utility companies?
I see we got some experts here.
I've heard the location was West Street.
s, thank you for your rationality, echoing every sentiment I've been feeling for the last week.
Lets tear down the entire city to look for all of these bones. I want trump tower torn down piece by piece and sifted. I want every piece of trash that has left the city in the past 5 years to be brought back and sifted. This may cost a lot of money, but you have no idea how much the proper burial of my 5 year olds daddys finger will mean to him...
So we're using other people's money now? Okay, lets do everything we can, spare no expense! My job at the tire garage won't be affected!
Hmm . . . maybe its NOT a good idea to let my dog keep chewing on that bone he found in battery park city…