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Suppose a facility manager opens a lab report and finds a single line: Legionella pneumophila detected, 4 CFU/mL, one of eight samples. Nothing on the page says whether that is a crisis, a nuisance, or noise. The obvious next question is whether the building is safe, and the report will not answer it. That is
Your Legionella Test Results Came Back. Here Is How to Read Them. Read More »
Picture a server room in an older downtown Augusta office building. Machines in a raised-floor space start throwing intermittent errors and hard-resetting, always different machines, never the same board twice. Replacement hardware fails too. Power quality checks out. Cooling checks out. The only thing that changed was routine: a contractor pulled new cable under the
Zinc Whiskers: The Data Center Contaminant You Cannot See Without … Read More »
Why water mitigation companies, remodelers, builders, restoration companies, and contractors should address asbestos before disturbing building materials Earlier this week, EnviroPro 360 received a call about a residential remodeling project near Columbia, South Carolina. Based on the information provided when the project was scheduled, our understanding was straightforward: the contractor needed an asbestos inspection associated
South Carolina Asbestos Inspections: The Mistake That Can Turn a … Read More »
A facilities director at a CSRA school inherited a binder labeled “asbestos” when the previous director retired. It contained an inspection report from the early 1990s, a hand-drawn floor plan, and nothing dated after 2014. He assumed the building had been cleared at some point, because nobody had raised it in a decade. What he
AHERA and Asbestos in Schools: What Administrators Are Actually R … Read More »
A homeowner outside Harlem got a notice from a neighbor’s community group about PFAS testing at a nearby public water system and wanted to know what her own results looked like. She does not have any. Her house is on a private well, which means no utility tests it, no annual report gets mailed to
PFAS in Drinking Water: What the Federal Limits Cover, and What T … Read More »
A family in North Augusta finished a guest suite over their garage so a grandmother with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a long-term lung condition) could move in. The suite had its own bathroom at the far end of a long hot water run, and for the eight months of construction and furnishing, that shower
Legionella in a House, Not a Hospital: When a Home Water System B … Read More »
A homeowner in Evans kept catching a faint sewage smell in a hall bathroom, always strongest in the late afternoon. Her water bill had not moved. There was no wet spot on the floor, no stain on the ceiling below, and no sound of running water when the house was quiet. A plumber checked the
The Leak That Isn’t Under Pressure: Finding Drain and Sewer … Read More »
A renter moving into a house in Evans asked her new landlord a single question before signing: “Has this place ever had a mold problem?” The landlord said no. Two months after move-in, a musty smell led her to request testing, which found active mold growth in a bathroom wall with a documented repair history
Signing a New Lease? What to Ask About a Rental’s Environme … Read More »
Schools must keep their AHERA asbestos management plans current, including required three-year reinspections and six-month periodic surveillance. Learn what school administrators and facility managers need to know about AHERA requirements, documentation, and professional asbestos inspections.
Is Your School’s AHERA Management Plan Up to Date? What Schools … Read More »
A homeowner in Martinez noticed her water bill had nearly doubled over two months with no obvious change in usage. There was no wet spot on the lawn, no soggy patch near the foundation, no water stain on a ceiling. The leak was in a pressurized supply line running under the slab, and by the
How Acoustic Leak Detection Finds Pressurized Pipe Leaks Before T … Read More »
