MOLD FOUND IN BRAZOS CO. JUVENILE JUSTICE CENTER
A portion of the R.J. Holmgreen Brazos County Juvenile Justice Center has been evacuated, after preliminary tests found a presence of mold.
County officials said in a release that employees expressed concerns to Juvenile Services Director Lina Ricketson. Tests were performed in 20 separate, random parts of the center, and four of those areas turned up positive for stachybotrys, a form of toxic black mold.
The affected areas have been temporarily closed off, and the county will now go back through to test the rest of the facility.
In the meantime, the county is proceeding with an abundance of caution until further testing can be done. Juveniles, employees, and their families are being notified, but they will not be allowed back into the affected areas until remediation is completed.
The county will share the results of the completed tests, when they are available. At this time, the primary concern is to protect the health and well-being of anyone in the affected areas.
We have old commercial buildings around our town square from early in the last century that don’t have toxic a mold issue, but in the past several decades, new structures in the Brazos Valley area have this problem. Especially government entitiy buildings. We have experienced this in Brenham on more than one occasion. Would any of your professional followers know the answer? Surely, I am not the only person who is curious about this issue. Looking forward to hearing some answers.
Clorox kills it. Wipe it down.
It’s a little more complicated than that. If there is mold in a building or home, it is highly likely there is a leak and ventilation problem. First you have to fix the source of the mold and then have the facility remediated…