CONWAY — Despite the facilities committee's recommendation to do so, the Conway School Board has voted not to buy four ionization units in order to explore their effectiveness in potentially warding off the novel coronavirus from classrooms in the district
The cost of the four units would have been $26,925.
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A note to the Conway School District. There is a product that you can buy from F.W.Webb called Iwave. It mounted in your air handler and kills Covid19. The cost is around $600.00 each. Call your Webb salesperson and check it out.
I disagree with the school board. There should be a concerted effort to upgrade the air handlers filtration systems. The cost of Hepa filters would be more than the air scrubbers proposed to the school board. In my opinion the filters should be between 13-16 MERV. The problem is that all highly rated filters are more expensive and increasingly harder to find due to Covid-19.
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