Study Finds Elevated Lead Levels in Neighborhoods
The article doesn’t raise the question, but I have to wonder if the poor and lower-middle class are or will be disproportionately affected by this…

The dirt poses the greatest hazard to small children who might play in it, said Steven M. Presley, a toxicologist at Texas Tech University, who led the soil survey team. The hazard could be reduced by keeping the dirt from becoming dry and airborne, by covering it with uncontaminated soil or, if necessary, by hauling it away.

“These levels are not astronomical. It’s not like this is an insurmountable hazard. But we are saying that we did find levels that exceeded these thresholds for human health,” Presley said yesterday after the study, which will appear in Environmental Science & Technology, was posted on the American Chemical Society’s Web site.

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