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Re: Lessons Learned in Houston--Disposal of Flood Damaged Boxes



While coroplast boxes are available from a number of vendors, one needs to
be aware that they are not sealed boxes.  Their use could prevent seepage
from a damp floor, but rising water would go right in along the vertical
edges.  The same would be truce for document cases -- all these boxes are
shopped as a flat piece and need to be built.

Anita M. Weber
Senior Archivist
History Associates Incorporated

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Mark Lambert [SMTP:mlambert@STCL.EDU]
        Sent:   Friday, June 29, 2001 10:43 AM
        To:     ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
        Subject:        Re: Lessons Learned in Houston--Disposal of Flood
Damaged Boxes

        Sharon:
        I hate to sound like an advertisement, but Gaylord does sell
coroplast
        currogated plastice storage cartons in document case and record
center
        carton size, but at around $10/box, about twice the price of the
        standard stuff, I know I won't be running out and buying any.  I've
        never known an archives that had all the money it needed, and I
think
        most of these problems can be solved in a much cheaper way by
following
        standard archival/preservation/risk management thinking on these
        subjects, such as:

        Never store stuff on the floor (sorry Paul)
        Never use a basement to store irreplacable stuff e.g. archives (too
bad
        resource allocators don't listen, if they don't, go ahead and buy
the
        plastic cartons by the gross, maybe they even float.) ;-)
        Have a disaster plan ready
        Have you hugged your BMS Cat, Belfor, Munters rep. lately?

        As the man said, "you can pay me now, or you can pay me later!"

        Oh, and I predict the next one hundred year flood will arrive in the
        next five years-start planning now.
        Mark

        Mark Lambert
        Special Collections and Government Documents Librarian
        South Texas College of Law Library
        Houston, TX

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