Louisville Middle School to reopen after asbestos scare

LOUISVILLE, Colo. – Louisville Middle School management has decided to reopen the school on Monday as EPA health officials determined that asbestos found in an old segment of the school is not dangerous in the areas students are using.

Adam Fels, the principal of the school, has notified the parents on Saturday that air samples inspected Friday showed no obvious level of asbestos.

The school had been evacuated Friday following the discovery of asbestos in the area of the building that presently undergoing renovation.

Students were shifted to portable classrooms Friday afternoon. Before the new Louisville Middle School was opened by April last, the school had been held at those classrooms.

Fels said that homework and academic due dates all were being adjusted in recognition that students had been unable to access their work over the weekend.

According to Fels, the source of asbestos is still unknown.

“However, staff is disposing construction debris in the old library and consumer family studies area. Students were not there in that section of the building Friday,” Fels said.

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