District Must Make Plan to Seal Asbestos
El Dorado Union High School District officials have two weeks to devise a plan for sealing patches of asbestos-tainted soil at Oak Ridge High School, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said.
The district must pave, landscape or otherwise reduce the potential breathing hazard on at least 78 areas of the campus, the agency said Tuesday.
The district has been working to locate naturally occurring asbestos and reduce the hazard at the school for four years, spending $1.5 million.
Officials have repeatedly assured the public that the campus was safe.
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