Jana Elementary PTA president Ashley Bernaugh got to school at 6 a.m., hoping to let arriving U.S. Army Corps of Engineers representatives know that the PTA would like a meeting with them on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Government contractors began radioactivity testing at the school after a private firm found high levels, shuttering the Hazelwood School District building located in Florissant near Coldwater Creek. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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Government contractors working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers survey the area near a playground outside Jana Elementary in Florissant, where radioactivity testing at the school started on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, after a private firm found high levels, shuttering the Hazelwood School District building located near Coldwater Creek.聽
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Government contractors working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gather outside Jana Elementary in Florissant to begin radioactivity testing at the school on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, after a private firm found high levels that shuttered the Hazelwood School District building located near Coldwater Creek. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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FLORISSANT 鈥 Workers in bright orange vests and plain white vehicles on Monday started testing Jana Elementary School for radioactive contamination on behalf of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
鈥淔rom a radiological standpoint, the school is safe,鈥 said Col. Kevin Golinghorst at a board meeting of the Hazelwood School District.
Jana Elementary PTA president Ashley Bernaugh got to school at 6 a.m., hoping to let arriving U.S. Army Corps of Engineers representatives know that the PTA would like a meeting with them on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Government contractors began radioactivity testing at the school after a private firm found high levels, shuttering the Hazelwood School District building located in Florissant near Coldwater Creek. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Government contractors working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers survey the area near a playground outside Jana Elementary in Florissant, where radioactivity testing at the school started on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, after a private firm found high levels, shuttering the Hazelwood School District building located near Coldwater Creek.聽
Government contractors working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gather outside Jana Elementary in Florissant to begin radioactivity testing at the school on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, after a private firm found high levels that shuttered the Hazelwood School District building located near Coldwater Creek. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
