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Parent group urges LTISD to test high school turf for crumb rubber carcinogens
Summary
A parent and advocacy-group director told the Lake Travis ISD board the district must disclose artificial-turf infill locations and test crumb-rubber samples after linking local cancer cases to the material; he offered to fund third-party tests.
Michael Herman, director of the Zachary Cole Foundation, asked the Lake Travis ISD board on June 9 to test the district’s artificial-turf crumb-rubber infill and to disclose where the material is used.
Herman described the foundation’s work memorializing his son, a former Lake Travis athlete who died of a rare leukemia, and said public data show a cluster of deaths in the ZIP code since 2012. He told the board crumb rubber — reclaimed tire infill used in many synthetic fields — contains chemicals such as benzene, arsenic and lead and that…
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