Wendland-Bowyer, Wendy,
Lead's Toxic Toll--Hazards Lurking in Soil As Children Play. Wendy Wendland-Bowyer. - 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--Hazards Lurking in Soil As Children Play, Jan. 23, 2003; pp. n.p..
"Lead-contaminated soil is widespread throughout metro Detroit, especially in the urban core where many of Michigan's poisoned children live, a Free Press investigation has found. Soil tests commissioned by the newspaper show dozens of locations...with lead levels that have triggered cleanups in other U.S. communities. But most of the sites will never be cleaned up." (DETROIT FREE PRESS) The author focuses on lead poisoning in the Detroit area and suggests that while "thousands of children in America's older, industrial cities grow up playing in toxic dirt in their backyards and neighborhoods," cleanups likely will not happen "because the national strategy for preventing lead poisoning focuses on paint."
1522-3205;
United States Environmental Protection Agency --Superfund
Hazardous waste site remediation
Incinerators
Lead poisoning in children
Soil pollution
Soil remediation
Detroit (Mich.)
AC1.S5
050
Lead's Toxic Toll--Hazards Lurking in Soil As Children Play. Wendy Wendland-Bowyer. - 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--Hazards Lurking in Soil As Children Play, Jan. 23, 2003; pp. n.p..
"Lead-contaminated soil is widespread throughout metro Detroit, especially in the urban core where many of Michigan's poisoned children live, a Free Press investigation has found. Soil tests commissioned by the newspaper show dozens of locations...with lead levels that have triggered cleanups in other U.S. communities. But most of the sites will never be cleaned up." (DETROIT FREE PRESS) The author focuses on lead poisoning in the Detroit area and suggests that while "thousands of children in America's older, industrial cities grow up playing in toxic dirt in their backyards and neighborhoods," cleanups likely will not happen "because the national strategy for preventing lead poisoning focuses on paint."
1522-3205;
United States Environmental Protection Agency --Superfund
Hazardous waste site remediation
Incinerators
Lead poisoning in children
Soil pollution
Soil remediation
Detroit (Mich.)
AC1.S5
050