Million-dollar cleanup for county building

BINGHAMTON, NY — Cleanup efforts to remove construction dust from the Broome County Office Building continue one floor at a time, according to the Press & Sun-Bulletin.

The fifth floor is scheduled to be completely cleaned by the end of the week, at which time cleaning crews will move down to the fourth floor and continue the painstaking cleanup, the story stated.

There is no word when the 400 Broome County employees will be able to return to the offices they were forced to evacuate on April 14 due to the infiltration of concrete dust from a construction project that was occurring in the basement of the building, the story noted.

The million-dollar cleanup was necessary after workers broke through a wall near the building's elevator shaft and continued using jackhammers on concrete despite the hole in the wall, the story added.

According to the story, dust was sucked into the county building through elevator shafts and spewed out on all six floors, with the worst of it on the lower floors of the building.

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