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Caustic Dust from Ground Zero Permeates Lower Manhattan's Offices, Apartments.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2002
By Andrew Schneider, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 10--NEW YORK--Even as the dust from the collapsed World Trade Center was still settling, top government scientists were determining that the smoky gray mixture was highly corrosive and potentially a serious danger to health.
The U.S. Geological Survey team found that some of the dust was as caustic as liquid drain cleaner and alerted all government agencies involved in the emergency response. But many of those on the front lines of protecting the health of the public and workers cleaning up the site say they never got the information.
"I'm supposed to be in the loop, and I've never heard any specific numbers on how caustic the dust actually was," said...
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