Lam, Tina,
Lead's Toxic Toll--Families in Danger from Smelter Fallout. Tina Lam and Shawn Windsor. - Detroit Free Press, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 42, Environment, 1522-3205; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: Lead's Toxic Toll--Families in Danger from Smelter Fallout, Jan. 22, 2003; pp. n.p..
"For two decades, toxic lead dust descended from a smelter onto an east-side Detroit neighborhood. The dust fell as much as 24 hours a day, settling on cars, gardens, backyards, parks, a federal housing complex and an elementary school. At times, nearly 2 pounds of lead spewed each hour from the 105-foot-high smokestack of the Master Metals plant on East Nevada near Mt. Elliott. Dump trucks kicked up lead dust from their tires as they rumbled in and out of the smelter. Since the late 1970s, government officials have know of health hazards in the neighborhood. But nearly 20 years after the smelter closed, the neighborhood has never been cleaned up." (DETROIT FREE PRESS) This article presents the results of a Free-Press investigation which "found that the federal Environmental Protection Agency ignored its own experts four years ago when the experts raised concerns about lead contamination near the site....[and then] decided no neighborhood cleanup was needed."
1522-3205;
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Hazardous waste site remediation
Lead poisoning in children
Smelting
Soil pollution
Detroit (Mich.)
AC1.S5
050
Lead's Toxic Toll--Families in Danger from Smelter Fallout. Tina Lam and Shawn Windsor. - Detroit Free Press, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 42, Environment, 1522-3205; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: Lead's Toxic Toll--Families in Danger from Smelter Fallout, Jan. 22, 2003; pp. n.p..
"For two decades, toxic lead dust descended from a smelter onto an east-side Detroit neighborhood. The dust fell as much as 24 hours a day, settling on cars, gardens, backyards, parks, a federal housing complex and an elementary school. At times, nearly 2 pounds of lead spewed each hour from the 105-foot-high smokestack of the Master Metals plant on East Nevada near Mt. Elliott. Dump trucks kicked up lead dust from their tires as they rumbled in and out of the smelter. Since the late 1970s, government officials have know of health hazards in the neighborhood. But nearly 20 years after the smelter closed, the neighborhood has never been cleaned up." (DETROIT FREE PRESS) This article presents the results of a Free-Press investigation which "found that the federal Environmental Protection Agency ignored its own experts four years ago when the experts raised concerns about lead contamination near the site....[and then] decided no neighborhood cleanup was needed."
1522-3205;
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Hazardous waste site remediation
Lead poisoning in children
Smelting
Soil pollution
Detroit (Mich.)
AC1.S5
050