Report: Crossroads South Middle School Tackles Mold Problem

Officials at the Crossroads South Middle School expect the mold on the walls to be cleared by the end of the week and no later than Monday, mycentrealjersey.com reports.

According to the report, the school district hired allRisk Property Damage Experts of Somerdale to clean the mold, which was discovered three weeks ago.

The mold was discovered throughout the school, mostly in classrooms, according to the report. Some areas didn’t have any mold. The mold represented mildew, not airborne spores, Superintendent of Schools Gary P. McCartney told centraljersey.com.

The air conditioning is not on during the summer, according to the report.

“Between the extremely hot weather we had and then the rain, the relative humidity was more than 60 to 70 percent,” McCartney told centraljersey.com.