Inquiry Ordered Into Toxic Day-Care Site
The state’s attorney general has ordered an investigation into why a day-care center where dozens of children were exposed to toxic mercury fumes was allowed to operate in a former thermometer factory in Franklinville.
Atty. Gen. Zulima V. Farber called the situation at Kiddie Kollege “outrageous.” More than 30 children were exposed to toxic mercury vapors at the center, and dozens more may have been affected.
The small brick building used by the day-care center since 2004 was on the DEP’s list of known contaminated sites in 2001 but not on the list in 2006.
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