Staff Photo by Dan Henry / The Chattanooga Times Free Press- 8/24/16. Asbestos has been discovered in the ceiling of the Chattanooga Public Library’s third floor as preparations to replace the lighting had begun. Chattanooga Public Library Director Corinne Hill hit her fingers into her hand as she spoke about the asbestos on three floors of the downtown library, emphasizing each point in her plan to get rid of it.
“There’s never been any danger. It wasn’t a surprise,” she said. “The rehabilitation of the asbestos has been part of [a lighting upgrade] project all along.”
She spoke Wednesday after enduring a host of morning telephone calls and meetings about asbestos in sprayed ceilings on three floors of the library.
Word about the asbestos spread Tuesday after the Chattanooga History Center posted the information on its website.
Hill said she didn’t know the post was there until she got a call from a television station telling her about it.