Asbestos violations issued at Mira Costa
The new school year got off to an unnerving start last week at Mira Costa High School when the South Coast Air Quality Management District issued violation notices to the Manhattan Beach Unified School District and two contractors for the illegal removal, handling, and disposal of asbestos found in the school library. The violations stem from a complaint received by SCAQMD on Aug. 16, which alleged that asbestos-containing floor material was being disturbed in a textbook storage room, located within the library, while students, parents, and staff were present for school registration. Inspectors responded the same day and found that workers had used a power grinder on the floor and had indeed disturbed asbestos. School officials immediately cordoned off both the library and three adjacent classrooms and hired an environmental firm to assess and remediate the problem. The following day, Superintendent Mike Matthews sent an email to parents in which he explained that the project had simply intended to convert a storage room into a more functional workroom, and was done with knowledge that the decades-old floor tiling contained asbestos. “Installing the carpet was a preventative…
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