A meeting is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon in the Malibu High School gym, where school district officials will provide more information and answer questions regarding alleged contaminants on campus.
Superintendent Sandra Lyon and members of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education will be present. The meeting is believed to be open to all parents.
Temporary fencing was installed in 2010 due to trenching work for a new information technology room at at the Malibu Middle and High School Campus. Soil containing elevated levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) was also removed in 2010, but some teachers believe the recent diagnoses of three colleagues with thyroid cancer may be related to contaminants at the campus.