What health issues are of greatest concern for children residing in the site area?
A2c: Children are more sensitive to the effects of lead than adults. Lead can affect children in different ways depending on how much lead the child swallows. Ingesting large amounts of lead can cause severe health effects such as anemia, kidney damage, colic, muscle weakness, and brain damage. Ingesting small amounts of lead may result in effects such as learning and behavior problems, slow development, and IQ loss in children as well as other developmental effects you may not see. Q3: If the site is proposed to the National Priorities List (NPL), how will we characterize the properties that were not tested? What happens if property owners undertake the soil cleanup themselves? A3: So far, out of approximately 7,000 properties in the area, about 2,100 have been tested. Additional properties will be sampled in the next several months. At this time, EPA studies and historical data suggest that the focus of the sampling is appropriate within parts of the three-mile study area. Based on l
