{"id":452961,"date":"2026-02-06T18:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/452961\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:29:13","slug":"review-finds-mold-asbestos-and-lead-in-walker-county-courthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/452961\/","title":{"rendered":"Review finds mold, asbestos and lead in Walker County courthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WALKER COUNTY, Ga. \u2014 An account manager for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gordian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gordian<\/a> told Walker County Commissioners Thursday that the county&#8217;s courthouse is full of environmental hazards. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Kayla Johnson with Gordian told commissioners that a recent walkthrough and structural review at the facility led to that discovery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did notice that there is mold, asbestos and lead-based paint through the courthouse,&#8221; said Johnson. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson also said problems with the courthouse&#8217;s roof caused water to leak into the building. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The courthouse has got to have some attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> $168,743 was approved by commissioners for Gordian to remediate the courthouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WALKER COUNTY, Ga. \u2014 An account manager for Gordian told Walker County Commissioners Thursday that the county&#8217;s courthouse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-452961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}