Mold Concerns Persist In Barracks

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USA Today
September 5, 2008
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A U.S. senator has asked Army Secretary Pete Geren to investigate delays in cleaning up mold-infested barracks. Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., first raised the issue in May following reports of mold in barracks at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
Geren assured him that, after the Bragg episode, 3,300 barracks and 146,500 rooms were inspected and remediation was underway. USA TODAY reported last month that soldiers living in two 48-room wounded-soldier barracks at Fort Sill, Okla., had complained for months about mold. "These recent allegations indicate" the review Geren promised "may not have been sufficiently comprehensive," Feingold wrote Geren. The Army did not respond to requests for comments.
--Gregg Zoroya
 
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