A preliminary inspection of the high school weight room Wednesday shows the cancer-causing agent creosote is present.
“I think it’s clearly creosote. The school says it’s creosote. And the architect says it’s creosote,” said Dick Stokes, a Department of Environmental Conservation official who examined the weight room for two hours Wednesday. Stokes, who had training as a pesticide chemist, said he could not specifically say what the concentration level of the creosote was. “I know…