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District air-quality tests find modest CO2 elevations in classrooms and mold in an unoccupied tunnel
Summary
District-contracted testing in December found three locations with CO2 slightly above ASHRAE comfort references and one unoccupied high-school tunnel with elevated mold spores; testing firm recommended targeted ventilation, longer-term monitoring and cleaning of stored materials in the tunnel.
Continental Analytics presented the results of December spot checks across Elizabethtown Area School District buildings at the Jan. 13 workshop, reporting a small number of readings that warrant follow-up rather than immediate alarm.
Rick Rausch of Continental Analytics told the board that three sampling locations (two in the middle school and one in Bear Creek) recorded carbon-dioxide concentrations slightly higher than the ASHRAE comfort reference of 1,100 parts per million, but “they…
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