Mold Problems – WCI Homeowners

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Sharon Kramer

Reported by: Jamie Holmes
Email: jholmes@wptv.com
Photographer: Blain Logan

PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL — No longer is Jennifer Henning’s husband her biggest fan.

Instead it’s a huge air machine sitting inside her living room, cranking 24-7 to suck up moisture. It takes up half the room, so imagine what it’s like living with nine of these fans going at once.

“It made us just want to walk away from the house,” says Henning.

The Henning house was built by WCI.

The problem is the windows. During Tropical Storm Fay the house might as well have not had any, because that water just kept coming. Some of the windows have been installed backwards, others were not properly caulked.

“The water was coming down here, just streams of water, you could poke a hole in the drywall,” she says.

From upstairs to downstairs, the water rolled behind the walls, even coming out of electrical outlets.

With all that water, a mold specialist was brought in, and found three times the healthy limit for toxic mold.

It has spread through the house, even filling the A-C vents. All this, and Jennifer is six months pregnant.

“I don’t want to bring my child into this world and live in a house like that.”

The problem is with WCI now in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the builder won’t cover the warranty to fix the windows or repair the damage.

That means the Hennings have shelled out nearly two-grand for their deductible to get the mold out before the baby is born.

The Henning family isn’t alone. Dozens of residents in the Evergrene community have had to deal with the same thing. Some have just water stains, others are also dealing with mold.

WCI had been repairing the windows, at no expense to the homeowner. WCI says to finish fixing the problem now they would need a special court order.

“It’s so unfair,” says Henning. “They can just hide behind Chapter 11. Because they’re just going to re-organize and come back and pick back up and leave all of us behind.”

Story – http://www.wptv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=0aa756f1-5996-4609-b601-c367080abc86

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How Riverstone Residential gets Litigation Dismissed – False Documents

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Sharon Kramer

This work order was made to fit the dates that Riverstone Residential prefers. Even if this leak had been repaired on the date they show it would have been a week and a half later than when they were first notified. They should have at least made one to show the repair work done on the date reported! Just a suggestion for future litigation.

We notified them of the leak “raining” down into the living room from the upstairs bath on April 6th. On April 20th I called the office because they still had not come to repair it. A few hours later when they still had not come we contacted them again. The head maintenance man then came to the apartment along with another maintenance employee who mentioned this is where a previous leak had been and we now know from maintenance records there have been leaks for years. Mr. Oby (the head of maintenance) asked if we had a document stating they had been to our apartment on April 15th. We had no such document because no one came that day and even if they had what was the point because there was no repair work. They cut a hole in the ceiling and the smell from mold was horrible. My daughter left with the baby the next morning when they came back to finish and I stayed in the other bedroom having become suddenly ill.

This leak was not the cause of a little mold growth in that apartment. It had been growing for years. This just confirmed the extensive mold problem along with the smells we noticed before and the mold growth that had started covering the vents. Yet a motion for summary judgment was granted and I was told by my attorney that the attorney for riverstone told the judge (who according to our attorney said he did not even read everything we submitted to him) that one could leave a wet wash cloth on the floor and mold would start to grow. Whatever.

We have a witness this work was done on April 20th & 21st.

Depositions from Mr. Oby and Connie Cambell the manager show they can’t get their dates straight.

More to come.

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Report: PD should leave station

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Sharon Kramer

By LIZZ D’ENTREMONT
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Staff

September 16. 2008 8:50AM

NEW IPSWICH — For the third time in two years, an environmental study has been conducted on the toxic mold at the police station, only to confirm what the other two reports have already indicated — the police need to vacate the building immediately.

The latest report, prepared by Gordon Mycology Laboratory Inc., of Littleton, Mass., arrived at the town office last week.

According to Chief Garrett Chamberlain, “The report said that there was an obvious mold problem in the building, and that little or no time should be spent in the building until it was remediated. It was their recommendation that the building be gutted completely,” or at least stripped of all wall coverings, furnishings and flooring,” he said.

It was the same recommendation that Desmaris Environmental Consulting of Barrington made to the town on two separate occasions — once, after conducting a test on the SAU 63 side of the building in November 2006, and a second time, after conducting tests on the police station side of the building. In both instances, Desmaris stated the only way to effectively remove the toxic mold known as Aspergillis Versicolor was to gut the building down to its studs.

At tonight’s selectmen’s meeting, an update on how the town is going to proceed with the mold problem at the police station is expected.

Chamberlain said he has no idea what the selectmen are going to propose as far as a temporary or permanent location. He said he hopes the Police Department doesn’t end up in a trailer parked in front of the building.

“We’re under so much pressure to operate as a professional Police Department on a daily basis from the community. It’s difficult to provide professional police services when your operating out of a trailer.”

Chamberlain said one of the reasons the Police Department cannot move into a temporary trailer is because of a state and federal law that requires juveniles and adults to have separate holding cells. “One of the problems we run into is if we arrest a 17-year-old and a 16-year-old in a car, they cannot be in the same room in the police station by law because one is an adult and one is a juvenile. “They have to be separated by sight and sound,” he said.

Chamberlain said that a modular, similar to the one that the Mason Police Department uses, is a better option. He said he must wait and see what the selectmen decide. “That [a modular] would be ideal,” he said. “It would suffice as a permanent police station.”

Story – http://www.ledgertranscript.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080916/LEDGERTRANSCRIPT/809160411/1315

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Cancer & Mold

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Sharon Kramer

The opinions of an MD and oncologist

After spending billions of dollars over many decades, the medical establishment claims not to know the cause of cancer, not to understand its nature, and can only offer expensive and invasive treatments like radiation and highly toxic drugs to treat it.

This strikes me as willful stupidity that conveniently happens to generate many billions of dollars each year that is spread out annually among many tens of thousands of employees of the cancer industry.

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/398.html

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Sign the Impact of Mold Illness Petition & Stop the Denial

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Sharon Kramer

Mold Illness – Stop the Denial

Our goal is to band together and sound the alarm that there are causes of illness beyond viruses, bacteria and parasites; that must be recognized and researched.

Thousands, maybe millions, are suffering the effects of our environment. Many don’t know it yet—attributing symptoms to aging or accepting disease diagnoses without questioning what is the actual cause of the disease. Just as we recognize and understand the mind-body connection, it is imperative to recognize and understand that the human-environment connection is equally dynamic. We are one with our environment, and the state of the environment will impact the state of our health. Some of us unfortunate to be at the forefront of this realization have arrived through illness from mold.

Our objective is to demonstrate the number of people affected by mold and the impact on their lives with a petition.

Sign Here – Petition

We are the Canaries

Contact Information – Email – admin@wearethecanaries.org

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