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School Lab Legacy Chemicals A chronology Dave Waddell Local Haz Waste Mgmt in King County WA dave.waddell@metrokc.gov
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1957 Sputnik Launched The U.S. panics
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1960 Congress & NSF grants in response to Russian threat $4,000,000 for science education Sizeable chunk trickles down to secondary schools
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1995 Wash. Dept. of Ecology launches School Sweeps Visits to community colleges includes labs Serious stockroom problems
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1997 School Sweeps ends- lab training offered 2 high school lab teachers attend “That looks like my lab” Inspect their lab, saw this Make proposal we fix it
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1998 Rehab the Lab launched in King County 100% cost coverage for disposal $300,000 initial budget for 3 years (later expanded)
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2000 NAHMMA Boston Put on 1 st 8-hour training on school labs Attendees from 8 states Scared the snot out of them Each state began working on issue (Iowa ran amuck!)
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2002 Rehab the Lab concludes $565,000 over 4 years 38.2 tons of chemicals removed 577 visits to 324 schools Bomb squad to over 40 schools Remember! –This is in one county
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2005 NBC Nightly News coverage of issue Multiple states & EPA focusing on issue Hurricane Katrina plea for help mentions school lab chemicals
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