Mystery Flood

At last night's Board of Education meeting, Elliott Landon stated that the unacceptable mold levels found in September 2006 were likely due to flooding during the summer of 2006. His implication was that there was no mold present while second grade students were in the classroom during the prior 2005-06 school year.

The BOE did not question the existence of this mystery flood.

The parents did.

1. The pod was built up on 2 foot concrete footings (see photos) and supported with steel beams. Given the topography where the school and pod sits, there would have had to have been a tsunami to flood that pod.

2. Health concerns and questions go back to 1997 with the pod

3. His 2001 reports were critical of the pod

4. His own consultants, AMC, did not find any water damage in the September 2006 report that would have been consistent with flooding. In fact they stated on page 3 of the report "it was reported that there is no history of roof leaks or other water intrusion". Click here to see the page.

We recommend that Board of Education members start asking their own follow up questions on what happened over the past 10 years.