The EPA mentioned it was assured the archdiocese’s two neighbouring faculties – St Justin’s Catholic Major College and St Benedict’s Catholic School in Oran Park – aren’t immediately impacted.
“At this stage there isn’t a proof mulch has been utilized in backyard beds or playgrounds throughout the faculty grounds,” a spokesperson mentioned in a press release. “Because of this, the colleges haven’t been recognized for precautionary testing.”
The 4 new detections imply that asbestos has been discovered at 32 websites throughout Better Sydney in what investigators are describing as “the largest investigation the EPA has undertaken in many years”.
Along with the seven faculties focused on Friday, 4 extra faculties have been recognized for testing. These are Domremy School in 5 Dock, Edmondson Park Public College in Edmondson Park, St Michael’s Catholic Major College in Daceyville, and Trinity Catholic Major College in Kemps Creek.
The College of Sydney has been recognized as a possible web site and can be examined over the weekend, whereas testing can be underway at Sydney Olympic Park after investigators recognized landscaping on a median strip as a location for precedence testing.
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“At this stage, there isn’t a signal of any asbestos within the mulch, and it isn’t in a extremely trafficked space,” the EPA mentioned in its morning replace.
NSW Setting Minister Penny Sharpe has reassured Taylor Swift followers the pop star’s present on the venue would nonetheless go forward subsequent week.
“This won’t cease Taylor Swift performing in Sydney,” Sharpe mentioned on Friday. “We’re testing samples however, regardless, we will take away the mulch and remediate earlier than Taylor Swift takes to the stage within the Harbour Metropolis.”
On Saturday, NSW EPA chief Tony Chappel mentioned he didn’t imagine there was any threat of corporations promoting contaminated mulch by way of retail shops.
“Bunnings, Mitre 10 [and] different nursery retailer merchandise aren’t in query right here,” he mentioned.
Bunnings confirmed Greenlife Useful resource Restoration was not a provider of theirs.
A Bunnings spokesperson mentioned “just a few prospects” in Sydney had requested if their mulch got here from Greenlife Useful resource Restoration, however they hadn’t seen “a big quantity” of queries.
“We’ve obtained robust relationships with our core mulch suppliers who maintain licences from the NSW EPA and are topic to the related regulatory requirements for the manufacturing of mulch merchandise,” they mentioned.