Lead in the Soil, An Often Overlooked Source

As the City of Galveston Lead Task Force continues to look at ways to remediate the Lead Based Paint issues on the Island, a study out of Indiana highlighted in Medical News Today may hold some promise for an economically feasible option. The most familiar source of lead is exposure to paint chips or the dust failing paint produces. Many forget to trace another source of exposure to when those chips and dust get into the soil and then onto the hands, faces, and toys of children playing outside. This source can prove to be particularly bad for urban areas (such as Galveston) because the contaminated dust and dirt can travel from one site to another very easily via the wind, erosion or other methods of transfer. There are a few options discussed for remediating the lead levels in soil, even something as simple as watering down the exposed soil could help to aleviate this problem.

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