PORTLAND, Ore. -- Lake Oswego High School will reopen Tuesday after a $2.5 million-fix to a contractor's mistake.
"It's a great building, great building for school but it had some significant flaws," said Lake Oswego School Superintendent Bill Korach.
After only five years the school leaked from the roof and the windows. Every window had to be taken out and then re-installed correctly so they wouldn't leak.
"The roof also leaked but that's all now been fixed and school is safe for students," said Korach, "If you've got water in those walls and that water is sitting there and you don't have the proper ventilation in there you're gonna get mold, and we did."
School administrators insisted that all the proper environmental testing to make sure all mold issues have been fixed. Inside the school it appeared that classrooms and teachers are ready for students on Tuesday.
"We checked and re-checked and we have to guarantee to our community that their kids are safe and they are safe," said Korach.
While school will open on Tuesday students will have to use side doors because scaffolding covers the front door.
Some will also have to park at the nearby church parking lot because contractors will be taking up some parking spaces at the rear of the school.
The first phase of fixing the leaking building is expected to be finished by late October.
The next phase begins next summer. Administrators say they hope to recoup the $2.5 million cost to fix the leaks through litigation.
