TraumAway BioRecovery Services, LLC

Cleaners branch out to pack rats, meth labs

Sunday, July 16, 2006

BY JIM MOORE

There's more to being a bio-recovery engineer than just cleaning the scenes of violent or unattended deaths.

Specialists like James Cheyne, owner of TraumAway BioRecovery Services in Southington, also work with what are known in the business as "pack rat homes" or "trash houses," which are chock-full of garbage, animal and human waste.

Kent Berg, founder of the American Bio-Recovery Association, said "pack rat" homes are a common phenomenon across the country.

"We've had situations where people, although their toilet's broken, they continue to use it until they fill up their bathroom." Animal droppings are another common find in such homes. "The reason we do it is because there are very significant health issues related to those droppings," Berg said. "We have also done Anthrax remediation" following the terror attacks in 2001.

Berg said his association's member companies also have branched into meth lab remediation, getting rid of deadly and explosive chemicals used to produce methamphetamine.

Cleaning cruise ships stricken with noro virus, a fast-spreading airborne pathogen which causes vomiting and diarrhea, is another job to which bio-recovery companies are called. "When the ships dock they have us come in and decontaminate everything on the ship," Berg said.

The industry also has been involved in large-scale disaster recovery efforts, such as the cleanup following Hurricane Katrina.

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