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Of those, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/05/1-4-california-child-care-centers-found-have-alarming-levels\">13 had lead levels above 500 ppb\u003c/a>, including four in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Petite Academy in San Diego reported the highest levels of lead — 11,300 ppb — of any child care center in the state. That’s more than 2,200 times higher than what California allows, and comes close to some of the highest levels detected \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353852/#:~:text=In%20the%20wake%20of%20the,23%2C%20100%20%CE%BCg%2FL.\">during the catastrophic water crisis in Flint, Michigan\u003c/a>, nearly a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility has since gotten rid of two drinking fountains with the highest lead samples and found its remaining water sources safe after retesting them, said Joanna Cline, spokesperson for the center.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Susan Little, senior advocate, Environmental Working Group\"]‘What’s so tragic about this is that this testing is not only an indicator of existing problems, but it also is an indicator of what could have been going on for decades in the drinking water in these centers throughout the state.’[/pullquote]The results indicate that the young children at those centers have been drinking lead-contaminated water for years, which is particularly worrisome because their bodies can absorb significantly more lead —\u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/lead-poisoning-and-health#:~:text=Young%20children%20are%20particularly%20vulnerable%20to%20lead%20poisoning%20because%20they,adults%20from%20a%20given%20source.\"> up to five times as much\u003c/a> — than those of adults, said Susan Little, a senior advocate with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/05/1-4-california-child-care-centers-found-have-alarming-levels\">Environmental Working Group\u003c/a>, the nonprofit that analyzed the test results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s so tragic about this is that this testing is not only an indicator of existing problems, but it also is an indicator of what could have been going on for decades in the drinking water in these centers throughout the state,” Little told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead is a toxic metal found throughout the environment that can enter drinking water from corroded pipes, and has been found to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/prevention/children.htm\">harm children’s nervous systems and brain development\u003c/a> if ingested in highly concentrated amounts. Exposure to lead — even at low levels — has been linked to developmental delays and cognition and behavioral problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those reasons, the \u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/138/1/e20161493/52600/Prevention-of-Childhood-Lead-Toxicity?_ga=2.241873154.1051551116.1684909652-1546072125.1684909652\">American Academy of Pediatrics in 2016 recommended\u003c/a> that lead concentrations in drinking water at schools not exceed 1 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EWG’s study stems from a state law passed in 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2370\">AB 2370\u003c/a>, that required all licensed child care centers located in buildings constructed before 2010 to test every faucet for lead contamination by January of this year, and then retest the water every five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the law, the state would order any facilities with water exceeding the limit of 5 ppb to reduce lead levels to as close to zero as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standards for child care centers are higher than those at elementary, middle and high schools, which don’t have to test every tap and are not required to replace fixtures or notify parents unless lead levels exceed 15 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Chris Holden, who authored AB 2370, introduced a bill this year that would require schools to meet the same standards as child care centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By aligning childcare and school lead testing standards we can protect children from the toxic effects of lead,” Holden said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care centers had a two-year window to have their drinking water tested for lead contamination. But so far, months past the deadline, hundreds have still not reported results, according to EWG’s analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11950822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5.png\" alt=\"A bar chart showing 13 child care centers in California with the highest lead levels.\" width=\"1640\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-800x503.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-1020x642.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-160x101.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-1536x967.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little said she expects the number of facilities with unhealthy lead exposure to grow as more test results come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears this is the tip of the iceberg,” she said, noting that licensed family child care homes in California, which outnumber child care centers, are not even required to test their water for lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little advises parents who send their children to family child care homes to encourage their providers to install newer faucets and lead-removing filters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who send their children to a center \u003ca href=\"https://static.ewg.org/upload/pdf/California_statewide_childcare_testing_results_as_of_April_23_2023_-_Statewide_results_as_of_4.27.23.pdf?_gl=1*1wkx0xy*_gcl_au*MTQyNzQ2MDgzNy4xNjg0OTA2Mzk4*_ga*MTEwNTE3ODc1OS4xNjg0OTA2Mzk4*_ga_CS21GC49KT*MTY4NDkwOTY0OS4yLjEuMTY4NDkxMTY2MS4wLjAuMA..&_ga=2.69131411.367003707.1684906398-1105178759.1684906398\">can look up lead-level results (PDF)\u003c/a> in EWG’s database and, if the results from that facility are missing, press them to test their water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the center has been found to have an unsafe level of lead in its water, Little encourages parents to ask providers for details on what they have done to lower those levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kumiko Inui, director of ABC Preschool in San Francisco, whose lead levels ranked fourth highest in the study, said that result was due to an outdoor sink that hadn’t been used in years and has since been shut off. But she said other fixtures at the Japanese-English bilingual preschool were below 5 ppb, and that the school uses a filter in its kitchen sink and supplies bottled water to students.[aside postID=news_11926006 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-15-at-8.16.23-PM-1200x750-1-1020x638.png']“I’m disappointed to get this kind of attention,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Griswold, principal of St. Catherine of Siena in Martinez, which ranked fifth in the statewide study, said high levels of lead were found in water from a sink in the director’s office that similarly hadn’t been used for several years. As a precaution, she said, students now get their drinking water from dispensers instead of fountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Kidango Linda Vista in San José, which had the 11th highest lead levels, said the center replaced problematic fixtures and supply lines and retested the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are pleased to report that each classroom at Linda Vista now has alternate fixtures that dispense water containing zero lead particles,” the spokesperson, Mario Fierro-Hernandez, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffany Teele, the director of the Bunker Hill Parents Participation Nursery School in San Mateo, which ranked 13th in lead levels, said an outdoor faucet that was only used for washing hands was the problematic fixture. The school has since replaced the faucet, retested the water and has been cleared, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The findings stem from a 2018 law requiring all licensed child care centers located in buildings constructed before 2010 to test every faucet for lead contamination by January of this year.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1685483676,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1084},"headData":{"title":"1 in 4 California Child Care Centers That Responded to First State Testing Requirement Had Unsafe Lead Levels in Drinking Water | KQED","description":"The findings stem from a 2018 law requiring all licensed child care centers located in buildings constructed before 2010 to test every faucet for lead contamination by January of this year.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"1 in 4 California Child Care Centers That Responded to First State Testing Requirement Had Unsafe Lead Levels in Drinking Water","datePublished":"2023-05-26T22:16:19.000Z","dateModified":"2023-05-30T21:54:36.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"Early Childhood Education and Care","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/early-childhood-education-and-care","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11950806/1-in-4-california-child-care-centers-has-unsafe-levels-of-lead-in-drinking-water-first-mandatory-testing-finds","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For the first time in state history, child care centers in California had to test their drinking water for possible lead contamination, and preliminary results show about a quarter of those that reported results contained unsafe levels of lead, according to data recently reported by state regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the nearly 6,900 centers whose results have been disclosed, almost 1,700 had lead levels that exceeded 5 parts per billion (ppb) — the state’s allowable limit for child care centers. Of those, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/05/1-4-california-child-care-centers-found-have-alarming-levels\">13 had lead levels above 500 ppb\u003c/a>, including four in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Petite Academy in San Diego reported the highest levels of lead — 11,300 ppb — of any child care center in the state. That’s more than 2,200 times higher than what California allows, and comes close to some of the highest levels detected \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353852/#:~:text=In%20the%20wake%20of%20the,23%2C%20100%20%CE%BCg%2FL.\">during the catastrophic water crisis in Flint, Michigan\u003c/a>, nearly a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility has since gotten rid of two drinking fountains with the highest lead samples and found its remaining water sources safe after retesting them, said Joanna Cline, spokesperson for the center.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘What’s so tragic about this is that this testing is not only an indicator of existing problems, but it also is an indicator of what could have been going on for decades in the drinking water in these centers throughout the state.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Susan Little, senior advocate, Environmental Working Group","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The results indicate that the young children at those centers have been drinking lead-contaminated water for years, which is particularly worrisome because their bodies can absorb significantly more lead —\u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/lead-poisoning-and-health#:~:text=Young%20children%20are%20particularly%20vulnerable%20to%20lead%20poisoning%20because%20they,adults%20from%20a%20given%20source.\"> up to five times as much\u003c/a> — than those of adults, said Susan Little, a senior advocate with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/05/1-4-california-child-care-centers-found-have-alarming-levels\">Environmental Working Group\u003c/a>, the nonprofit that analyzed the test results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s so tragic about this is that this testing is not only an indicator of existing problems, but it also is an indicator of what could have been going on for decades in the drinking water in these centers throughout the state,” Little told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead is a toxic metal found throughout the environment that can enter drinking water from corroded pipes, and has been found to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/prevention/children.htm\">harm children’s nervous systems and brain development\u003c/a> if ingested in highly concentrated amounts. Exposure to lead — even at low levels — has been linked to developmental delays and cognition and behavioral problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those reasons, the \u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/138/1/e20161493/52600/Prevention-of-Childhood-Lead-Toxicity?_ga=2.241873154.1051551116.1684909652-1546072125.1684909652\">American Academy of Pediatrics in 2016 recommended\u003c/a> that lead concentrations in drinking water at schools not exceed 1 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EWG’s study stems from a state law passed in 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2370\">AB 2370\u003c/a>, that required all licensed child care centers located in buildings constructed before 2010 to test every faucet for lead contamination by January of this year, and then retest the water every five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the law, the state would order any facilities with water exceeding the limit of 5 ppb to reduce lead levels to as close to zero as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standards for child care centers are higher than those at elementary, middle and high schools, which don’t have to test every tap and are not required to replace fixtures or notify parents unless lead levels exceed 15 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Chris Holden, who authored AB 2370, introduced a bill this year that would require schools to meet the same standards as child care centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By aligning childcare and school lead testing standards we can protect children from the toxic effects of lead,” Holden said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care centers had a two-year window to have their drinking water tested for lead contamination. But so far, months past the deadline, hundreds have still not reported results, according to EWG’s analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11950822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5.png\" alt=\"A bar chart showing 13 child care centers in California with the highest lead levels.\" width=\"1640\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-800x503.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-1020x642.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-160x101.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-1536x967.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little said she expects the number of facilities with unhealthy lead exposure to grow as more test results come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears this is the tip of the iceberg,” she said, noting that licensed family child care homes in California, which outnumber child care centers, are not even required to test their water for lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little advises parents who send their children to family child care homes to encourage their providers to install newer faucets and lead-removing filters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who send their children to a center \u003ca href=\"https://static.ewg.org/upload/pdf/California_statewide_childcare_testing_results_as_of_April_23_2023_-_Statewide_results_as_of_4.27.23.pdf?_gl=1*1wkx0xy*_gcl_au*MTQyNzQ2MDgzNy4xNjg0OTA2Mzk4*_ga*MTEwNTE3ODc1OS4xNjg0OTA2Mzk4*_ga_CS21GC49KT*MTY4NDkwOTY0OS4yLjEuMTY4NDkxMTY2MS4wLjAuMA..&_ga=2.69131411.367003707.1684906398-1105178759.1684906398\">can look up lead-level results (PDF)\u003c/a> in EWG’s database and, if the results from that facility are missing, press them to test their water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the center has been found to have an unsafe level of lead in its water, Little encourages parents to ask providers for details on what they have done to lower those levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kumiko Inui, director of ABC Preschool in San Francisco, whose lead levels ranked fourth highest in the study, said that result was due to an outdoor sink that hadn’t been used in years and has since been shut off. But she said other fixtures at the Japanese-English bilingual preschool were below 5 ppb, and that the school uses a filter in its kitchen sink and supplies bottled water to students.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11926006","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-15-at-8.16.23-PM-1200x750-1-1020x638.png","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’m disappointed to get this kind of attention,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Griswold, principal of St. Catherine of Siena in Martinez, which ranked fifth in the statewide study, said high levels of lead were found in water from a sink in the director’s office that similarly hadn’t been used for several years. As a precaution, she said, students now get their drinking water from dispensers instead of fountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Kidango Linda Vista in San José, which had the 11th highest lead levels, said the center replaced problematic fixtures and supply lines and retested the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are pleased to report that each classroom at Linda Vista now has alternate fixtures that dispense water containing zero lead particles,” the spokesperson, Mario Fierro-Hernandez, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffany Teele, the director of the Bunker Hill Parents Participation Nursery School in San Mateo, which ranked 13th in lead levels, said an outdoor faucet that was only used for washing hands was the problematic fixture. The school has since replaced the faucet, retested the water and has been cleared, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11950806/1-in-4-california-child-care-centers-has-unsafe-levels-of-lead-in-drinking-water-first-mandatory-testing-finds","authors":["11829"],"categories":["news_18540","news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_32768","news_32698","news_22570","news_32102","news_20013","news_32769","news_27626","news_18543","news_3025","news_5356","news_17763"],"featImg":"news_11950995","label":"source_news_11950806"},"news_11687110":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11687110","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11687110","score":null,"sort":[1534424861000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-bridge-dismantling-project-was-a-lead-contamination-site","title":"Bay Bridge Dismantling Project Was a Lead-Contamination Site","publishDate":1534424861,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Last March, \u003ca href=\"https://capitalandmain.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capital & Main\u003c/a> launched an investigative series, “Battery Blood,” which revealed that hundreds of workers at the former Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon, California, had for decades been exposed to lead poisoning. Even worse, the state’s public health department knew about it but failed to act. Now, utilizing data obtained from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), our joint investigation with the University of Southern California’s Center for Health Journalism has found at least 80 companies — including one that recently dismantled parts of the iconic San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge — continue to have workers in California who are lead-poisoned at levels high enough to cause birth defects, tremors and a variety of brain disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once again we found that CDPH routinely failed to refer even the most egregious employers to state enforcement officers who can levy fines and require mandatory changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most extensive problems were found at other car battery recycling plants in working-class areas of Los Angeles. At one plant, Trojan Battery Recycling Company had 174 employees with elevated levels of lead in their blood between 2015 and 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/lists/22191603/California-s-Dept-of-Public-Health-Failed-to-Report-Elevated-Blood-Lead-Levels\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Documents Related to the Story\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s beyond upsetting,” Bell city councilman Nestor Valencia said. He lives in one of the roughly 10,000 residential properties contaminated at levels above what is safe for kids by lead emissions from the Exide plant. “You know we need these jobs, but not at the expense of worker health or keeping kids who live nearby safe. This is what state government is supposed to be for, and they are failing us.” Valencia said he was shocked to learn that other nearby plants continue to have lead-poisoned workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area also has serious ongoing problems. There were lead-poisoning victims among those working on the demolition of the eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. Despite promises to keep workers safe from lead, California Engineering Contractors, which received a $200 million dollar state contract to dismantle the earthquake-damaged span, had 12 cases of lead-poisoned employees between 2013 and 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at Target Masters West, an indoor gun range in the city of Milpitas, there have been more than 25 lead-poisoning cases in the last decade amongst workers who clean and manage the range. Seven cases were reported during 2015 and 2016, the most recent years for which data is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Target Master West owner Bill Heskett bristled at the suggestion his workers had been poisoned, asserting that a spate of recent findings by public health experts that lead at lower levels is harmful to human health “isn’t based in real science and has been set by a bunch of clerks with no accountability.” Heskett said that the recent spikes in lead levels at his range were attributable to an employee “who wasn’t following protocols.” The employee was terminated, Heskett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the Exide revelations in our March investigation, a bill was introduced in the California legislature by Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose). Assembly Bill 2963 would require mandatory inspections at any workplace where a worker’s blood lead level is at or above 25 micrograms per deciliter. Even at levels as low as 10 micrograms per deciliter, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Controls (CDC), people with prolonged exposure to the neurotoxin are at higher risk for high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney disease and reduced fertility.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>\"You know we need these jobs, \u003c/strong>but not at the expense of worker health or keeping kids who live nearby safe.\u003ccite>Bell city councilman Nestor Valencia\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While the legislation has faced stiff opposition from industry groups and only passed out of the Assembly by a single vote, it has stronger support in the Senate and appears likely to make it to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among AB 2963’s supporters is Senator Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont), who expressed dismay that problems at the Milpitas gun range (which is in his district), the Bay Bridge project and elsewhere have been allowed to linger. “If you had a family member or a friend exposed to high blood lead levels, you would want to see immediate action taken to reduce that exposure,” Wieckowski said. “The health and safety of all workers should be the top priority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Two Agencies Working in Silos\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The problem in California doesn’t appear to lie with finding out about lead-poisoned workers, but with what happens when some state officials get that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At battery plants, gun ranges and other workplaces where exposure to lead is common, the state of California requires companies to test their workers for elevated levels of lead. The custodian of that testing information is a division of CDPH called the Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (OLPPP). The division is funded through a small fee on employers in industries that work with lead. In theory, OLPPP provides education to companies and at the agency’s discretion can refer serious cases to the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, better known as Cal/OSHA. The enforcement agency can then determine the cause of problems and issue fines when unsafe practices are found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our year-long investigation found a stunning level of reluctance on the part of CDPH to turn lead-poisoning cases over to Cal/OSHA for enforcement. Of the eight companies with some of the most persistent problems with lead exposure in California between 2013 and 2016, Cal/OSHA confirmed that it received no referrals from OLPPP for any of them during the last 10 years, and conducted no lead-related inspections at any of the companies. Many of the workplaces have had lead-poisoned workers for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDPH has declined repeated interview requests and did not respond in time for publication to written questions about its management of lead poisoning cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the state Public Records Act, Capital & Main obtained communications between OLPPP and California Engineering Contractors (CEC), one of the companies awarded a contract by California’s Department of Transportation to dismantle the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2013, OLPPP informed the company that workers on the project would be exposed to lead coating as the steel bridge was dismantled. “Our role is to assist employers in identifying and correcting work practices that can result in employees being over exposed to lead,” the OLPPP wrote in a letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>\"They’ve lost sight of the fundamental mission,\u003c/strong> to make sure that at the end of the day workers come home to their families safe and sound.\"\u003ccite>Mariano Kramer, a former district manager for Cal/OSHA\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Within a year, workers on the project showed signs of elevated blood lead levels. The company asserted in an August, 2014 email to OLPPP that it could bring the situation under control. “We are confident we can get even the highest exposed workers under 10 µg/dl (BLL) with aggressive oversight and support,” wrote CEC safety director Robert Ikenberry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite assurances, the problem of lead-poisoned employees grew worse. By 2015 one worker’s blood lead levels had exceeded 40 micrograms per deciliter, a level deemed “very high” by the CDC. Michael McKinney, a safety manager for CEC had an explanation, which he provided in an email to OLPPP. “The employee admitted to us that he was chewing tobacco during work. We feel that this practice is what caused the high lead level,” McKinney wrote. OLPPP appeared to accept that explanation, and never referred the Bay Bridge project for Cal/OSHA inspection, even when elevated blood levels amongst workers jumped 25 percent the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariano Kramer, a former district manager for Cal/OSHA, said that simply accepting emailed assurances from a company with lead-poisoned workers is not acceptable. “There are a myriad of issues which can cause elevated blood lead levels. A trained inspector knows how to identify them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 27 states, workplace occupational lead safety standards are administered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a federal agency. In those states, any blood lead level above 25 micrograms triggers an automatic OSHA inspection, through which fines for unsafe conditions can be levied and changes can be mandated. A similar standard would go into effect in California if AB 2963 becomes law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kramer said he supports the proposed legislation because it would empower his former agency to more aggressively target workplaces that lead-poison workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But,” he added, “there are cultural issues within both agencies that no law will fix. They’ve lost sight of the fundamental mission, to make sure that at the end of the day workers come home to their families safe and sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was produced as a project for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/event/2017-california-data-fellowship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 California Data Fellowship,\u003c/a> a program of \u003ca href=\"https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The problem in California doesn’t appear to lie with finding out about lead-poisoned workers, but with what happens — or doesn’t happen — when some state officials get that information.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1534534745,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1518},"headData":{"title":"Bay Bridge Dismantling Project Was a Lead-Contamination Site | KQED","description":"The problem in California doesn’t appear to lie with finding out about lead-poisoned workers, but with what happens — or doesn’t happen — when some state officials get that information.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Bay Bridge Dismantling Project Was a Lead-Contamination Site","datePublished":"2018-08-16T13:07:41.000Z","dateModified":"2018-08-17T19:39:05.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11687110 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11687110","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/08/16/bay-bridge-dismantling-project-was-a-lead-contamination-site/","disqusTitle":"Bay Bridge Dismantling Project Was a Lead-Contamination Site","source":"Capital and Main","sourceUrl":"https://capitalandmain.com/bay-bridge-dismantling-project-was-a-lead-contamination-site-0815","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/08/SepulvadoRubinLeadPoisoningTCRAM180817.mp3","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://capitalandmain.com/author/jrubin\">Joe Rubin\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://capitalandmain.com/bay-bridge-dismantling-project-was-a-lead-contamination-site-0815\">Capital and Main\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11687110/bay-bridge-dismantling-project-was-a-lead-contamination-site","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last March, \u003ca href=\"https://capitalandmain.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capital & Main\u003c/a> launched an investigative series, “Battery Blood,” which revealed that hundreds of workers at the former Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon, California, had for decades been exposed to lead poisoning. Even worse, the state’s public health department knew about it but failed to act. Now, utilizing data obtained from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), our joint investigation with the University of Southern California’s Center for Health Journalism has found at least 80 companies — including one that recently dismantled parts of the iconic San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge — continue to have workers in California who are lead-poisoned at levels high enough to cause birth defects, tremors and a variety of brain disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once again we found that CDPH routinely failed to refer even the most egregious employers to state enforcement officers who can levy fines and require mandatory changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most extensive problems were found at other car battery recycling plants in working-class areas of Los Angeles. At one plant, Trojan Battery Recycling Company had 174 employees with elevated levels of lead in their blood between 2015 and 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/lists/22191603/California-s-Dept-of-Public-Health-Failed-to-Report-Elevated-Blood-Lead-Levels\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Documents Related to the Story\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s beyond upsetting,” Bell city councilman Nestor Valencia said. He lives in one of the roughly 10,000 residential properties contaminated at levels above what is safe for kids by lead emissions from the Exide plant. “You know we need these jobs, but not at the expense of worker health or keeping kids who live nearby safe. This is what state government is supposed to be for, and they are failing us.” Valencia said he was shocked to learn that other nearby plants continue to have lead-poisoned workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area also has serious ongoing problems. There were lead-poisoning victims among those working on the demolition of the eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. Despite promises to keep workers safe from lead, California Engineering Contractors, which received a $200 million dollar state contract to dismantle the earthquake-damaged span, had 12 cases of lead-poisoned employees between 2013 and 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at Target Masters West, an indoor gun range in the city of Milpitas, there have been more than 25 lead-poisoning cases in the last decade amongst workers who clean and manage the range. Seven cases were reported during 2015 and 2016, the most recent years for which data is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Target Master West owner Bill Heskett bristled at the suggestion his workers had been poisoned, asserting that a spate of recent findings by public health experts that lead at lower levels is harmful to human health “isn’t based in real science and has been set by a bunch of clerks with no accountability.” Heskett said that the recent spikes in lead levels at his range were attributable to an employee “who wasn’t following protocols.” The employee was terminated, Heskett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the Exide revelations in our March investigation, a bill was introduced in the California legislature by Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose). Assembly Bill 2963 would require mandatory inspections at any workplace where a worker’s blood lead level is at or above 25 micrograms per deciliter. Even at levels as low as 10 micrograms per deciliter, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Controls (CDC), people with prolonged exposure to the neurotoxin are at higher risk for high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney disease and reduced fertility.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>\"You know we need these jobs, \u003c/strong>but not at the expense of worker health or keeping kids who live nearby safe.\u003ccite>Bell city councilman Nestor Valencia\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While the legislation has faced stiff opposition from industry groups and only passed out of the Assembly by a single vote, it has stronger support in the Senate and appears likely to make it to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among AB 2963’s supporters is Senator Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont), who expressed dismay that problems at the Milpitas gun range (which is in his district), the Bay Bridge project and elsewhere have been allowed to linger. “If you had a family member or a friend exposed to high blood lead levels, you would want to see immediate action taken to reduce that exposure,” Wieckowski said. “The health and safety of all workers should be the top priority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Two Agencies Working in Silos\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The problem in California doesn’t appear to lie with finding out about lead-poisoned workers, but with what happens when some state officials get that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At battery plants, gun ranges and other workplaces where exposure to lead is common, the state of California requires companies to test their workers for elevated levels of lead. The custodian of that testing information is a division of CDPH called the Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (OLPPP). The division is funded through a small fee on employers in industries that work with lead. In theory, OLPPP provides education to companies and at the agency’s discretion can refer serious cases to the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, better known as Cal/OSHA. The enforcement agency can then determine the cause of problems and issue fines when unsafe practices are found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our year-long investigation found a stunning level of reluctance on the part of CDPH to turn lead-poisoning cases over to Cal/OSHA for enforcement. Of the eight companies with some of the most persistent problems with lead exposure in California between 2013 and 2016, Cal/OSHA confirmed that it received no referrals from OLPPP for any of them during the last 10 years, and conducted no lead-related inspections at any of the companies. Many of the workplaces have had lead-poisoned workers for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDPH has declined repeated interview requests and did not respond in time for publication to written questions about its management of lead poisoning cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the state Public Records Act, Capital & Main obtained communications between OLPPP and California Engineering Contractors (CEC), one of the companies awarded a contract by California’s Department of Transportation to dismantle the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2013, OLPPP informed the company that workers on the project would be exposed to lead coating as the steel bridge was dismantled. “Our role is to assist employers in identifying and correcting work practices that can result in employees being over exposed to lead,” the OLPPP wrote in a letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>\"They’ve lost sight of the fundamental mission,\u003c/strong> to make sure that at the end of the day workers come home to their families safe and sound.\"\u003ccite>Mariano Kramer, a former district manager for Cal/OSHA\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Within a year, workers on the project showed signs of elevated blood lead levels. The company asserted in an August, 2014 email to OLPPP that it could bring the situation under control. “We are confident we can get even the highest exposed workers under 10 µg/dl (BLL) with aggressive oversight and support,” wrote CEC safety director Robert Ikenberry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite assurances, the problem of lead-poisoned employees grew worse. By 2015 one worker’s blood lead levels had exceeded 40 micrograms per deciliter, a level deemed “very high” by the CDC. Michael McKinney, a safety manager for CEC had an explanation, which he provided in an email to OLPPP. “The employee admitted to us that he was chewing tobacco during work. We feel that this practice is what caused the high lead level,” McKinney wrote. OLPPP appeared to accept that explanation, and never referred the Bay Bridge project for Cal/OSHA inspection, even when elevated blood levels amongst workers jumped 25 percent the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariano Kramer, a former district manager for Cal/OSHA, said that simply accepting emailed assurances from a company with lead-poisoned workers is not acceptable. “There are a myriad of issues which can cause elevated blood lead levels. A trained inspector knows how to identify them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 27 states, workplace occupational lead safety standards are administered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a federal agency. In those states, any blood lead level above 25 micrograms triggers an automatic OSHA inspection, through which fines for unsafe conditions can be levied and changes can be mandated. A similar standard would go into effect in California if AB 2963 becomes law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kramer said he supports the proposed legislation because it would empower his former agency to more aggressively target workplaces that lead-poison workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But,” he added, “there are cultural issues within both agencies that no law will fix. They’ve lost sight of the fundamental mission, to make sure that at the end of the day workers come home to their families safe and sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was produced as a project for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/event/2017-california-data-fellowship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 California Data Fellowship,\u003c/a> a program of \u003ca href=\"https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11687110/bay-bridge-dismantling-project-was-a-lead-contamination-site","authors":["byline_news_11687110"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_22876","news_231","news_19542","news_3025","news_5356"],"featImg":"news_11687151","label":"source_news_11687110"},"news_11668651":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11668651","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11668651","score":null,"sort":[1526734823000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"persistent-poison-skyrocketing-rents-trap-families-in-homes-with-lead-paint","title":"Persistent Poison: Skyrocketing Rents Trap Families in Homes with Lead Paint","publishDate":1526734823,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We meet Souleika Dirieh and Tarek Cherif at \u003ca href=\"https://cuesa.org/seller/hummus-heaven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the hummus factory\u003c/a> they own in San Leandro. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their three-year-old daughter Kawkeb loves playing outdoors. She runs between empty food crates, deep in a game of hide-and-go-seek with her mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the factory, the Cherifs and their employees make dozens of different types of hummus. Piles of ripped pita bread sizzle in the deep fryer before being sprinkled with spices. They're packaged and shipped off to farmers markets around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Souleika Dirieh stands in front of the hummus shop she and her husband own in San Leandro. They believe their daughter got lead poisoning from an apartment they used to rent down the street. \u003ccite>(Angela Johnston)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hummus factory is right down the street from the studio apartment this family used to live in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where their lead poisoning story began, a little over three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Hidden Problem\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tarek had just opened the business. He worked late nights, sleeping on the couch so he wouldn't disturb his wife and daughter when he came home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day I got sick,” he says. “For three days I was sick in the house. I couldn't even move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He just couldn’t shake the lingering cold. Souleika and Kawkeb got it too. Her parents say their little girl was sick for about six months with cold symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family only seemed to get better when they left the apartment, like when they went on vacation. Then, one day, Tarek realized he couldn’t find his wedding ring. They tore apart the house looking for it, pulling out the dresser and peering down the sink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We flipped the couch over and everything was green, green and black,” Tarek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was mold everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn't believe it. I mean, I was in shock,\" says Tarek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says rainwater that collected on the roof seeped into their walls and onto the floor. The mold was disgusting, but they were about to discover something worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They took Kawkeb to the hospital to see if the mold was making her sick. The doctors ran other tests, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when we realized that she had lead [poisoning],\" says Tarek. \"Honestly, the only thing I could think of was that it came from the apartment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Serious Discovery\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/\">there is no safe level for lead\u003c/a>, but the threshold for intervention is when blood shows more than 5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. Kawkeb’s blood registered a lead level of 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She stopped eating at first. She was always crying for no reason,\" Souleika recalls. \"Under her eyes were dark circles, and she wanted only my breast milk and not other food, and she would sleep a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That unusual behavior terrified Souleika.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I blamed myself,\" she says. \"I thought I didn't take care of her and that she ate something that I did not pay attention to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cherifs came to the U.S. from Africa: Souleika from Djibouti and Tarek from Tunisia. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, most of the time I don't hear American kids got lead,” says Souleika.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Response Network Kicks Into Gear\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The doctor immediately faxed Kawkeb’s high results to the county. Diep Tran, a county public health nurse, called the Cherifs, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.achhd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County Healthy Homes\u003c/a> department came by to inspect the property for lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cherifs say by the time the county inspectors got there, the landlord had painted over the mold and the lead, so they couldn’t find any initial evidence. Painting over lead does contain it, temporarily solving the problem and making it undetectable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But county officials concluded that when Kawkeb got sick, the mold must have worn down the lead paint on the walls. Lead particles made their way into the air, and onto the floor where Kawkeb used to play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would get affected more than us,” Tarek says. “We could breathe [it in], but because we are adults we could get rid of it faster than she does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they got Kawkeb into the county’s lead reduction program, the Cherifs moved out temporarily, staying with family while the landlord said he would finish the repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as soon as they moved back in, Kawkeb’s lead levels didn’t go down like they should. The whole family started to get sick again. Tarek says he could tell the mold and lead weren’t really gone. He called the landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took him inside the house and I showed them the same problem again,” Tarek says. “He wanted to move me to another apartment.” It was a neighboring unit in the building. Tarek wanted the county to come and inspect that unit, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him, 'before I could move to another apartment, I'm going to bring in a whole team and test the place and then I'll move. If it's safe, I'll move.' And I think that's what actually triggered everything. He evicted us right after that,” Tarek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Legal Battle Begins\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Cherifs claim their landlord evicted them because they started to put up a fight. They’ve sued their former landlord for wrongful eviction and a host of other habitability claims. Basically, they allege their apartment wasn’t safe to live in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The same day he kicked us out he had another family move into the apartment,\" claims Tarek. \"He didn’t even clean it. He didn't do a thing. Nothing. I mean we moved out at midnight, and a new family came in at 8 a.m., and they were already in the apartment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke with the lawyer who represents both Cherifs’ former landlord and the property management company. He said he can’t comment because the case is ongoing, but that his clients “categorically deny any and all of the Cherifs’ claims,” and have not seen any evidence with merit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tarek Cherif says he’s worried someone else will get sick staying in his old apartment building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know my neighbors, they're afraid because the rent is still kind of low. So, they don't want to move out even though they know there are all these problems,\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lead-free, but not cheap\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Cherifs paid just under $900 per month for their old place. The fair market rent for a studio in Alameda County is just over \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/FY2018_code/2018summary.odn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1500\u003c/a> and many go for more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they searched for a new place in San Leandro near Tarek’s hummus shop, they couldn’t find anything. Eventually, they moved to Milpitas, a 40-minute drive away, into a house they shared with Tarek’s brother’s family, creating a joint household of seven people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their rent nearly quadrupled, but the house is safe. Tarek says he had it tested as soon as he moved in. More importantly, he says, Kawkeb’s acting like herself again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She's developing normally, she's grown normal. I mean she speaks, what, seven or eight languages,” Tarek says. “She counts, she knows numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her lead levels have gone down significantly, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She's fine,” Souleika chimes in. “She's eating well, she's playing. She's hundred percent healthy, and I’m happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a family dealing with a lead-poisoned child, the Cherifs were actually lucky. They had a safety net, some savings and family they could move in with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens to the families that don't have anywhere else to move once they discover their child has lead poisoning?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diep Tran, the nurse who handles severe lead poisoning cases in Alameda County, says she strongly urges families to move if the lead problem is too difficult to fix or the property owners can’t be persuaded. State laws dictate landlords must maintain the property — including addressing lead hazards if there is a lead poisoned child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran says landlords can claim that they want to sell the property instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if they're really not trying to sell the property and they just want the family to move so they don't have to do the work?\" asks Tran. \"I cannot go back in three months and snoop around and see that that's what the property owners meant when they said that they are selling. Sometimes they evict the family, and they change their mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the homeowners can rent to someone who can pay more, or sell the property altogether. She says sometimes this type of gentrification can result in lead cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After a low-income family moves out, the property owners repaint and remodel the apartment or the house and can charge double or triple the price.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran says when families have no other options, she actually may encourage them to go to a homeless shelter. That actually ups their chance of getting affordable and lead-safe housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other families, Tran says, move to Stockton, Antioch, Vallejo or Concord — suburbs on the edge of the Bay Area or Central Valley with cheaper, newer homes that don’t have lead paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, some eight million homes were built before lead paint was banned in the 1970s. There are some 400,00 such homes in Alameda County alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668663\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-1200x853.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-1180x838.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-960x682.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-375x266.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-520x369.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County's public health department put together this lead poisoning heat map that accounts for several risk factors like race, poverty level, education, and age of homes. There is a higher risk of lead poisoning in the darker areas. \u003ccite>(Alameda County's Community Assessment Planning Evaluation (CAPE))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To follow up on her hunch, we called a handful of Bay Area fair-housing agencies. They told us they’re seeing an alarming trend: clusters of refugees and immigrants in unsafe housing. That practice of landlords taking advantage of people they know won't be able to fight back is called \u003ca href=\"http://ced.berkeley.edu/downloads/gallery/incity/su13/incity_bayarea_voicesoftheregion_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">predatory habitability\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's no surprise to Souleika Cherif. She says, older housing stock often ends up going to people who have fewer resources to deal with problems like lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is part of a \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/lead-and-bay-area-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">longer story\u003c/a> in a KALW series \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/term/persistent-poison-leads-toxic-legacy-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Persistent Poison: Lead’s Toxic Legacy in the Bay Area.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Cherifs had a good deal on an apartment, but paid a high price when their daughter got lead poisoning. 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She runs between empty food crates, deep in a game of hide-and-go-seek with her mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the factory, the Cherifs and their employees make dozens of different types of hummus. Piles of ripped pita bread sizzle in the deep fryer before being sprinkled with spices. They're packaged and shipped off to farmers markets around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Souleika Dirieh stands in front of the hummus shop she and her husband own in San Leandro. They believe their daughter got lead poisoning from an apartment they used to rent down the street. \u003ccite>(Angela Johnston)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hummus factory is right down the street from the studio apartment this family used to live in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where their lead poisoning story began, a little over three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Hidden Problem\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tarek had just opened the business. He worked late nights, sleeping on the couch so he wouldn't disturb his wife and daughter when he came home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day I got sick,” he says. “For three days I was sick in the house. I couldn't even move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He just couldn’t shake the lingering cold. Souleika and Kawkeb got it too. Her parents say their little girl was sick for about six months with cold symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family only seemed to get better when they left the apartment, like when they went on vacation. Then, one day, Tarek realized he couldn’t find his wedding ring. They tore apart the house looking for it, pulling out the dresser and peering down the sink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We flipped the couch over and everything was green, green and black,” Tarek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was mold everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn't believe it. I mean, I was in shock,\" says Tarek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says rainwater that collected on the roof seeped into their walls and onto the floor. The mold was disgusting, but they were about to discover something worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They took Kawkeb to the hospital to see if the mold was making her sick. The doctors ran other tests, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when we realized that she had lead [poisoning],\" says Tarek. \"Honestly, the only thing I could think of was that it came from the apartment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Serious Discovery\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/\">there is no safe level for lead\u003c/a>, but the threshold for intervention is when blood shows more than 5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. Kawkeb’s blood registered a lead level of 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She stopped eating at first. She was always crying for no reason,\" Souleika recalls. \"Under her eyes were dark circles, and she wanted only my breast milk and not other food, and she would sleep a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That unusual behavior terrified Souleika.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I blamed myself,\" she says. \"I thought I didn't take care of her and that she ate something that I did not pay attention to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cherifs came to the U.S. from Africa: Souleika from Djibouti and Tarek from Tunisia. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, most of the time I don't hear American kids got lead,” says Souleika.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Response Network Kicks Into Gear\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The doctor immediately faxed Kawkeb’s high results to the county. Diep Tran, a county public health nurse, called the Cherifs, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.achhd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County Healthy Homes\u003c/a> department came by to inspect the property for lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cherifs say by the time the county inspectors got there, the landlord had painted over the mold and the lead, so they couldn’t find any initial evidence. Painting over lead does contain it, temporarily solving the problem and making it undetectable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But county officials concluded that when Kawkeb got sick, the mold must have worn down the lead paint on the walls. Lead particles made their way into the air, and onto the floor where Kawkeb used to play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would get affected more than us,” Tarek says. “We could breathe [it in], but because we are adults we could get rid of it faster than she does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they got Kawkeb into the county’s lead reduction program, the Cherifs moved out temporarily, staying with family while the landlord said he would finish the repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as soon as they moved back in, Kawkeb’s lead levels didn’t go down like they should. The whole family started to get sick again. Tarek says he could tell the mold and lead weren’t really gone. He called the landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took him inside the house and I showed them the same problem again,” Tarek says. “He wanted to move me to another apartment.” It was a neighboring unit in the building. Tarek wanted the county to come and inspect that unit, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him, 'before I could move to another apartment, I'm going to bring in a whole team and test the place and then I'll move. If it's safe, I'll move.' And I think that's what actually triggered everything. He evicted us right after that,” Tarek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Legal Battle Begins\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Cherifs claim their landlord evicted them because they started to put up a fight. They’ve sued their former landlord for wrongful eviction and a host of other habitability claims. Basically, they allege their apartment wasn’t safe to live in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The same day he kicked us out he had another family move into the apartment,\" claims Tarek. \"He didn’t even clean it. He didn't do a thing. Nothing. I mean we moved out at midnight, and a new family came in at 8 a.m., and they were already in the apartment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke with the lawyer who represents both Cherifs’ former landlord and the property management company. He said he can’t comment because the case is ongoing, but that his clients “categorically deny any and all of the Cherifs’ claims,” and have not seen any evidence with merit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tarek Cherif says he’s worried someone else will get sick staying in his old apartment building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know my neighbors, they're afraid because the rent is still kind of low. So, they don't want to move out even though they know there are all these problems,\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lead-free, but not cheap\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Cherifs paid just under $900 per month for their old place. The fair market rent for a studio in Alameda County is just over \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/FY2018_code/2018summary.odn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1500\u003c/a> and many go for more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they searched for a new place in San Leandro near Tarek’s hummus shop, they couldn’t find anything. Eventually, they moved to Milpitas, a 40-minute drive away, into a house they shared with Tarek’s brother’s family, creating a joint household of seven people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their rent nearly quadrupled, but the house is safe. Tarek says he had it tested as soon as he moved in. More importantly, he says, Kawkeb’s acting like herself again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She's developing normally, she's grown normal. I mean she speaks, what, seven or eight languages,” Tarek says. “She counts, she knows numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her lead levels have gone down significantly, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She's fine,” Souleika chimes in. “She's eating well, she's playing. She's hundred percent healthy, and I’m happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a family dealing with a lead-poisoned child, the Cherifs were actually lucky. They had a safety net, some savings and family they could move in with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens to the families that don't have anywhere else to move once they discover their child has lead poisoning?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diep Tran, the nurse who handles severe lead poisoning cases in Alameda County, says she strongly urges families to move if the lead problem is too difficult to fix or the property owners can’t be persuaded. State laws dictate landlords must maintain the property — including addressing lead hazards if there is a lead poisoned child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran says landlords can claim that they want to sell the property instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if they're really not trying to sell the property and they just want the family to move so they don't have to do the work?\" asks Tran. \"I cannot go back in three months and snoop around and see that that's what the property owners meant when they said that they are selling. Sometimes they evict the family, and they change their mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the homeowners can rent to someone who can pay more, or sell the property altogether. She says sometimes this type of gentrification can result in lead cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After a low-income family moves out, the property owners repaint and remodel the apartment or the house and can charge double or triple the price.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran says when families have no other options, she actually may encourage them to go to a homeless shelter. That actually ups their chance of getting affordable and lead-safe housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other families, Tran says, move to Stockton, Antioch, Vallejo or Concord — suburbs on the edge of the Bay Area or Central Valley with cheaper, newer homes that don’t have lead paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, some eight million homes were built before lead paint was banned in the 1970s. There are some 400,00 such homes in Alameda County alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668663\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-1200x853.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-1180x838.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-960x682.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-375x266.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-520x369.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County's public health department put together this lead poisoning heat map that accounts for several risk factors like race, poverty level, education, and age of homes. There is a higher risk of lead poisoning in the darker areas. \u003ccite>(Alameda County's Community Assessment Planning Evaluation (CAPE))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To follow up on her hunch, we called a handful of Bay Area fair-housing agencies. They told us they’re seeing an alarming trend: clusters of refugees and immigrants in unsafe housing. That practice of landlords taking advantage of people they know won't be able to fight back is called \u003ca href=\"http://ced.berkeley.edu/downloads/gallery/incity/su13/incity_bayarea_voicesoftheregion_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">predatory habitability\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's no surprise to Souleika Cherif. She says, older housing stock often ends up going to people who have fewer resources to deal with problems like lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is part of a \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/lead-and-bay-area-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">longer story\u003c/a> in a KALW series \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/term/persistent-poison-leads-toxic-legacy-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Persistent Poison: Lead’s Toxic Legacy in the Bay Area.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11668651/persistent-poison-skyrocketing-rents-trap-families-in-homes-with-lead-paint","authors":["byline_news_11668651"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_260","news_1930","news_23274","news_3025","news_5355","news_5356","news_23276","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11668662","label":"news_72"},"news_11667635":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11667635","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11667635","score":null,"sort":[1525994003000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lead-paint-makers-balk-at-huge-toxic-cleanup-bill-they-want-you-to-pick-up-the-tab","title":"Lead Paint Makers Balk at Huge Toxic Cleanup Bill — They Want You to Pick Up the Tab","publishDate":1525994003,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Three companies found to have sold toxic lead paint for decades -- despite knowing it posed health hazards for children -- are waging a major battle to avoid paying the several hundred millions of dollars in liability that California courts have slapped on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’re asking you, the California voter, to help them get their way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After losing an 18-year-long legal fight, ConAgra, NL Industries and Sherwin Williams are now working on two different fronts to overturn the ruling, which says they must pay to clean up lead paint in older homes in 10 cities and counties across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies have hired a slew of lobbyists to push their agenda in the state Legislature and poured $6 million into a campaign to put an initiative on the November ballot that would shift clean-up costs to taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their argument: The ruling rewards landlords who have neglected their properties, and also creates new burdens for homeowners whose houses have lead paint but do not qualify for abatement funding based on criteria set by the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort has kicked up an intense response from Democratic legislators who represent the cities and counties that sued the companies in 2000 over the hazards posed by lead paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lead paint companies are the new tobacco companies of 2018. After many, many decades of... knowingly and intentionally deceiving the public about their products, they are now trying to escape liability through whatever way they can,” said Democratic Assemblyman David Chiu, whose city of San Francisco was among the plaintiffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make sure that someone is going to pay for tens of thousands of children who are being poisoned by lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead was a common paint ingredient in the early 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century. Over time scientists found that lead exposure causes brain damage in young children. In 1951 manufacturers began putting a warning label on lead paint, and in 1978 stopped selling lead paint in the United States. But many old homes still have lead paint on the walls or windowsills. And it is dangerous when it deteriorates because children may eat paint chips or inhale toxic dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court decision -- which the state Supreme Court recently declined to review on appeal -- requires the companies to pay into a fund that would be used to clean up lead paint in homes built before 1951 in seven counties (Santa Clara, Alameda, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Mateo, Solano, Ventura) and three cities (Oakland, San Diego and San Francisco). Those jurisdictions combined are home to almost half the population of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exact amount the companies must pay is still being determined. The trial court set it at $1.15 billion to cover homes built before 1981, but the appellate court ruled that only homes built before 1951 should be covered and directed the trial court to reduce the amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11667652\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11667652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Sherwin Williams paint cans at a promotional event in 2015. Sherwin Williams is one of three paint companies working to overturn a ruling that says they must pay to clean up lead paint in older homes across California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sherwin Williams paint cans at a promotional event in 2015. Sherwin Williams is one of three paint companies working to overturn a ruling that says they must pay to clean up lead paint in older homes across California. \u003ccite>(Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ruling doesn’t require complete removal of lead paint from those homes, but says they must be fixed by sealing old paint or replacing parts of windowsills or doors. Priority for repairs goes to homes where children have been poisoned by lead, or where there’s a history of violating building codes and laws meant to prevent lead poisoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Property owners who have neglected their responsibility to those families now get a windfall abatement plan,” said Tony Dias, a lawyer for Sherwin Williams. He added that the paint companies would appeal their loss to the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kicking Costs to Taxpayers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the ballot measure the paint companies have sponsored would reverse the ruling, block future lawsuits for similar claims, and create a bond using taxpayer funds to pay for repairing an array of environmental hazards in homes across the state -- not just the 10 places that sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $2 billion bond could be used to remedy mold and asbestos in addition to lead paint. With interest, the bond would \u003ca href=\"http://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2017/170675.pdf\">cost taxpayers\u003c/a> $3.9 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a broader solution to the problem we’re facing,” said Kendall Klingler, a spokeswoman for the ballot measure campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling is problematic for homeowners in the 10 municipalities whose houses were built between 1951 and 1981, the campaign contends, because it deems the lead paint in those homes a public nuisance but does not provide funding to abate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overturning the court ruling will obviously benefit the paint companies but it’s really beneficial to homeowners. Right now their fates are tied as long as this court ruling stands,” Klingler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'At the end of the day, the folks that are responsible for the lead paint ought to be the ones who pay.'\u003ccite>Assemblyman Adam Gray\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It’s rare for groups that lose in court to try to overturn an unfavorable ruling on the ballot. But it’s not uncommon for interest groups lobbying for a new law in the Legislature to simultaneously launch a ballot measure drive. The threat can be used as leverage to get what they want from the Legislature instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet clear if that’s the goal of the paint companies here. They’ve submitted the signatures necessary to put their initiative on the November ballot and counties are now checking if they are valid. Initiative backers could pull their measure off the ballot up until June 28. They have launched a publicity campaign that calls on the Legislature to “craft a real solution” -- but so far no bills have been introduced that advance their aim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now the paint companies are working with other business interests to kill a \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-lead-paint-california-legislation-20180322-story.html\">slate of bills\u003c/a> introduced by legislators from the regions that brought the lawsuit. Their bills would expand the scope of the court ruling and make it easier for people to sue over lead paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the companies have any shot of making a deal in the Legislature, one bloc of lawmakers will be critical: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/the-public-eye/article2597114.html\">the moderate Democrats\u003c/a> who are typically the swing vote in stand-offs between environmentalists and big business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paint companies’ campaign has reported making payments to David Townsend, a political consultant who has close ties to the caucus of moderate Democrats. He wouldn’t talk about the strategy he’s crafting but said that generally speaking, “most organizations would rather work it out in the Legislature than pay for a big ballot measure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leader of the moderate caucus said he’s met with the paint company lobbyists but that conversations are in early stages and the issue isn’t a huge priority for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully we can come to a legislative solution that protects Californians, protects children and takes care of any homes that need to be abated,” said Assemblyman Adam Gray, a Merced Democrat. “But at the end of the day, the folks that are responsible for the lead paint ought to be the ones who pay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">\u003cem>CALmatters.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California’s policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After losing a prolonged legal fight, ConAgra, NL Industries and Sherwin Williams are trying to overturn a ruling saying they must pay to clean up lead paint in older homes across California.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1526162631,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1233},"headData":{"title":"Lead Paint Makers Balk at Huge Toxic Cleanup Bill — They Want You to Pick Up the Tab | KQED","description":"After losing a prolonged legal fight, ConAgra, NL Industries and Sherwin Williams are trying to overturn a ruling saying they must pay to clean up lead paint in older homes across California.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Lead Paint Makers Balk at Huge Toxic Cleanup Bill — They Want You to Pick Up the Tab","datePublished":"2018-05-10T23:13:23.000Z","dateModified":"2018-05-12T22:03:51.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11667635 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11667635","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/05/10/lead-paint-makers-balk-at-huge-toxic-cleanup-bill-they-want-you-to-pick-up-the-tab/","disqusTitle":"Lead Paint Makers Balk at Huge Toxic Cleanup Bill — They Want You to Pick Up the Tab","source":"CALmatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/author/laurel-rosenhall/\">Laurel Rosenhall\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11667635/lead-paint-makers-balk-at-huge-toxic-cleanup-bill-they-want-you-to-pick-up-the-tab","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Three companies found to have sold toxic lead paint for decades -- despite knowing it posed health hazards for children -- are waging a major battle to avoid paying the several hundred millions of dollars in liability that California courts have slapped on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’re asking you, the California voter, to help them get their way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After losing an 18-year-long legal fight, ConAgra, NL Industries and Sherwin Williams are now working on two different fronts to overturn the ruling, which says they must pay to clean up lead paint in older homes in 10 cities and counties across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies have hired a slew of lobbyists to push their agenda in the state Legislature and poured $6 million into a campaign to put an initiative on the November ballot that would shift clean-up costs to taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their argument: The ruling rewards landlords who have neglected their properties, and also creates new burdens for homeowners whose houses have lead paint but do not qualify for abatement funding based on criteria set by the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort has kicked up an intense response from Democratic legislators who represent the cities and counties that sued the companies in 2000 over the hazards posed by lead paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lead paint companies are the new tobacco companies of 2018. After many, many decades of... knowingly and intentionally deceiving the public about their products, they are now trying to escape liability through whatever way they can,” said Democratic Assemblyman David Chiu, whose city of San Francisco was among the plaintiffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make sure that someone is going to pay for tens of thousands of children who are being poisoned by lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead was a common paint ingredient in the early 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century. Over time scientists found that lead exposure causes brain damage in young children. In 1951 manufacturers began putting a warning label on lead paint, and in 1978 stopped selling lead paint in the United States. But many old homes still have lead paint on the walls or windowsills. And it is dangerous when it deteriorates because children may eat paint chips or inhale toxic dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court decision -- which the state Supreme Court recently declined to review on appeal -- requires the companies to pay into a fund that would be used to clean up lead paint in homes built before 1951 in seven counties (Santa Clara, Alameda, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Mateo, Solano, Ventura) and three cities (Oakland, San Diego and San Francisco). Those jurisdictions combined are home to almost half the population of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exact amount the companies must pay is still being determined. The trial court set it at $1.15 billion to cover homes built before 1981, but the appellate court ruled that only homes built before 1951 should be covered and directed the trial court to reduce the amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11667652\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11667652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Sherwin Williams paint cans at a promotional event in 2015. Sherwin Williams is one of three paint companies working to overturn a ruling that says they must pay to clean up lead paint in older homes across California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SherwinPaintCans-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sherwin Williams paint cans at a promotional event in 2015. Sherwin Williams is one of three paint companies working to overturn a ruling that says they must pay to clean up lead paint in older homes across California. \u003ccite>(Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ruling doesn’t require complete removal of lead paint from those homes, but says they must be fixed by sealing old paint or replacing parts of windowsills or doors. Priority for repairs goes to homes where children have been poisoned by lead, or where there’s a history of violating building codes and laws meant to prevent lead poisoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Property owners who have neglected their responsibility to those families now get a windfall abatement plan,” said Tony Dias, a lawyer for Sherwin Williams. He added that the paint companies would appeal their loss to the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kicking Costs to Taxpayers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the ballot measure the paint companies have sponsored would reverse the ruling, block future lawsuits for similar claims, and create a bond using taxpayer funds to pay for repairing an array of environmental hazards in homes across the state -- not just the 10 places that sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $2 billion bond could be used to remedy mold and asbestos in addition to lead paint. With interest, the bond would \u003ca href=\"http://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2017/170675.pdf\">cost taxpayers\u003c/a> $3.9 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a broader solution to the problem we’re facing,” said Kendall Klingler, a spokeswoman for the ballot measure campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling is problematic for homeowners in the 10 municipalities whose houses were built between 1951 and 1981, the campaign contends, because it deems the lead paint in those homes a public nuisance but does not provide funding to abate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overturning the court ruling will obviously benefit the paint companies but it’s really beneficial to homeowners. Right now their fates are tied as long as this court ruling stands,” Klingler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'At the end of the day, the folks that are responsible for the lead paint ought to be the ones who pay.'\u003ccite>Assemblyman Adam Gray\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It’s rare for groups that lose in court to try to overturn an unfavorable ruling on the ballot. But it’s not uncommon for interest groups lobbying for a new law in the Legislature to simultaneously launch a ballot measure drive. The threat can be used as leverage to get what they want from the Legislature instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet clear if that’s the goal of the paint companies here. They’ve submitted the signatures necessary to put their initiative on the November ballot and counties are now checking if they are valid. Initiative backers could pull their measure off the ballot up until June 28. They have launched a publicity campaign that calls on the Legislature to “craft a real solution” -- but so far no bills have been introduced that advance their aim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now the paint companies are working with other business interests to kill a \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-lead-paint-california-legislation-20180322-story.html\">slate of bills\u003c/a> introduced by legislators from the regions that brought the lawsuit. Their bills would expand the scope of the court ruling and make it easier for people to sue over lead paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the companies have any shot of making a deal in the Legislature, one bloc of lawmakers will be critical: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/the-public-eye/article2597114.html\">the moderate Democrats\u003c/a> who are typically the swing vote in stand-offs between environmentalists and big business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paint companies’ campaign has reported making payments to David Townsend, a political consultant who has close ties to the caucus of moderate Democrats. He wouldn’t talk about the strategy he’s crafting but said that generally speaking, “most organizations would rather work it out in the Legislature than pay for a big ballot measure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leader of the moderate caucus said he’s met with the paint company lobbyists but that conversations are in early stages and the issue isn’t a huge priority for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully we can come to a legislative solution that protects Californians, protects children and takes care of any homes that need to be abated,” said Assemblyman Adam Gray, a Merced Democrat. “But at the end of the day, the folks that are responsible for the lead paint ought to be the ones who pay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">\u003cem>CALmatters.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California’s policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11667635/lead-paint-makers-balk-at-huge-toxic-cleanup-bill-they-want-you-to-pick-up-the-tab","authors":["byline_news_11667635"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_20191","news_3025","news_5355","news_5356","news_18","news_19960","news_4486","news_38"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11667644","label":"source_news_11667635"},"news_11633889":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11633889","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11633889","score":null,"sort":[1512082313000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"high-levels-of-lead-detected-in-tap-water-at-some-san-francisco-schools","title":"High Levels of Lead Detected in Tap Water at Some San Francisco Schools","publishDate":1512082313,"format":"audio","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#documents\">New documents obtained by KQED\u003c/a> reveal that half of San Francisco schools have lead in their water, though levels vary widely from school to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information obtained as a result of a request under the California Public Records Act shows water from one tap measured more than 370 times the allowable concentration of lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The science classroom faucet at San Francisco International High School registered lead at 5,600 parts per billion. The Environmental Protection Agency sets the allowable limit at just 15 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tap is one of about a dozen extremely high levels recorded at the campus, which is shared with elementary school kids from the New School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Isolated Case?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, the city's Childhood Lead Prevention Program coordinator, Haroon Ahmad, says it's too soon to panic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still believe that the water is pretty good,\" Ahmad says. \"It's probably the fixture that's the problem, and at this point the fixture has been taken out of service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmad sees statistics on every child with high lead levels in their blood, and he says he hasn't seen an increase or clusters of high concentrations at city schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have not seen a spike of cases coming our way since the school investigation has started,\" Ahmad says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco volunteered to begin testing its schools for lead -- 5 taps per school -- earlier this year. A new state law will require all districts to do the same by the end of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Three-San-Francisco-public-schools-show-high-12306785.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three school sites \u003c/a>-- West Portal and Malcolm X elementary schools, and San Francisco International High School -- came back with samples that were too high. Repeat testing at those schools was conducted by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Much Is Too Much?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of an observed increase in reported lead poisoning could support the district's belief that many faucets were rarely used -- like that science lab faucet, which officials say wasn't used for drinking. But it could also mean that parents haven't tested their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we see more typically is that kids may have no symptoms at all with lower levels,\" says Dr. Alison Matsunaga, a hematologist at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. \"But we know chronically over time, when kids have lead levels that are elevated, it can affect IQ, cognitive issues, neurodevelopmental issues as well, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matsunaga says many experts, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/With-No-Amount-of-Lead-Exposure-Safe-for-Children,-American-Academy-of-Pediatrics-Calls-For-Stricter-Regulations.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Academy of Pediatrics\u003c/a>, maintain that any lead is too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's important, because 34 of the 74 San Francisco schools tested so far came back with detectable levels of lead \u003cem>under\u003c/em> the EPA limit, including taps in cafeterias and water refill stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no safe level of lead in drinking water for children,\" says the California Public Interest Research Group's Jason Pfeifle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pfeifle has been actively pushing for a zero-lead policy in neighboring Oakland, which has \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8A8X8ktDxQkV3Z6RU85R1pWZXc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found\u003c/a> the toxic metal in nearly as many of its schools so far. He wants to see the same policy in San Francisco schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The district should be fixing any water taps where any lead was found,\" Pfeifle says. \"Anything above 1 part per billion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Nik Kaestner, sustainability director for the San Francisco Unified School District, any lead is a concern and fixing all tainted taps is being considered, as well as the possibility of testing every water spigot at every school -- but neither is on top of the district's \"priority matrix.\" He says the district immediately put faucets that were over the limit out of service. For now, individual schools have discretion when it comes to lower levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the logical course of action is to deal with your highest levels first, and then to work your way down to those that are not an immediate threat perhaps, but in the long run shouldn't be in our schools,\" Kaestner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says 56 schools remain to be tested by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Check the list of schools tested so far below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSBVI493F8U3DYA27QmhitiUr2rlEmqVXdRbuHLrSz0TssXKtems_0Xib1hzWf9cijICYWPXk94Imi9/pub?embedded=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"documents\">Read the documents below\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\n[SFUSDLead]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Many experts, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, say any lead is too much.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1521760575,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":686},"headData":{"title":"High Levels of Lead Detected in Tap Water at Some San Francisco Schools | KQED","description":"Many experts, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, say any lead is too much.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"High Levels of Lead Detected in Tap Water at Some San Francisco Schools","datePublished":"2017-11-30T22:51:53.000Z","dateModified":"2018-03-22T23:16:15.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11633889 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11633889","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/30/high-levels-of-lead-detected-in-tap-water-at-some-san-francisco-schools/","disqusTitle":"High Levels of Lead Detected in Tap Water at Some San Francisco Schools","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/11/HossainiSFUSDWater.mp3","path":"/news/11633889/high-levels-of-lead-detected-in-tap-water-at-some-san-francisco-schools","audioDuration":172000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#documents\">New documents obtained by KQED\u003c/a> reveal that half of San Francisco schools have lead in their water, though levels vary widely from school to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information obtained as a result of a request under the California Public Records Act shows water from one tap measured more than 370 times the allowable concentration of lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The science classroom faucet at San Francisco International High School registered lead at 5,600 parts per billion. The Environmental Protection Agency sets the allowable limit at just 15 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tap is one of about a dozen extremely high levels recorded at the campus, which is shared with elementary school kids from the New School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Isolated Case?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, the city's Childhood Lead Prevention Program coordinator, Haroon Ahmad, says it's too soon to panic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still believe that the water is pretty good,\" Ahmad says. \"It's probably the fixture that's the problem, and at this point the fixture has been taken out of service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmad sees statistics on every child with high lead levels in their blood, and he says he hasn't seen an increase or clusters of high concentrations at city schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have not seen a spike of cases coming our way since the school investigation has started,\" Ahmad says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco volunteered to begin testing its schools for lead -- 5 taps per school -- earlier this year. A new state law will require all districts to do the same by the end of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Three-San-Francisco-public-schools-show-high-12306785.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three school sites \u003c/a>-- West Portal and Malcolm X elementary schools, and San Francisco International High School -- came back with samples that were too high. Repeat testing at those schools was conducted by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Much Is Too Much?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of an observed increase in reported lead poisoning could support the district's belief that many faucets were rarely used -- like that science lab faucet, which officials say wasn't used for drinking. But it could also mean that parents haven't tested their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we see more typically is that kids may have no symptoms at all with lower levels,\" says Dr. Alison Matsunaga, a hematologist at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. \"But we know chronically over time, when kids have lead levels that are elevated, it can affect IQ, cognitive issues, neurodevelopmental issues as well, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matsunaga says many experts, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/With-No-Amount-of-Lead-Exposure-Safe-for-Children,-American-Academy-of-Pediatrics-Calls-For-Stricter-Regulations.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Academy of Pediatrics\u003c/a>, maintain that any lead is too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's important, because 34 of the 74 San Francisco schools tested so far came back with detectable levels of lead \u003cem>under\u003c/em> the EPA limit, including taps in cafeterias and water refill stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no safe level of lead in drinking water for children,\" says the California Public Interest Research Group's Jason Pfeifle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pfeifle has been actively pushing for a zero-lead policy in neighboring Oakland, which has \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8A8X8ktDxQkV3Z6RU85R1pWZXc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found\u003c/a> the toxic metal in nearly as many of its schools so far. He wants to see the same policy in San Francisco schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The district should be fixing any water taps where any lead was found,\" Pfeifle says. \"Anything above 1 part per billion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Nik Kaestner, sustainability director for the San Francisco Unified School District, any lead is a concern and fixing all tainted taps is being considered, as well as the possibility of testing every water spigot at every school -- but neither is on top of the district's \"priority matrix.\" He says the district immediately put faucets that were over the limit out of service. For now, individual schools have discretion when it comes to lower levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the logical course of action is to deal with your highest levels first, and then to work your way down to those that are not an immediate threat perhaps, but in the long run shouldn't be in our schools,\" Kaestner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says 56 schools remain to be tested by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Check the list of schools tested so far below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSBVI493F8U3DYA27QmhitiUr2rlEmqVXdRbuHLrSz0TssXKtems_0Xib1hzWf9cijICYWPXk94Imi9/pub?embedded=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"documents\">Read the documents below\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\n[SFUSDLead]\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11633889/high-levels-of-lead-detected-in-tap-water-at-some-san-francisco-schools","authors":["3214"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_18540","news_19906","news_457","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_3025","news_38","news_2998"],"featImg":"news_11634031","label":"news_6944"},"news_11618107":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11618107","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11618107","score":null,"sort":[1505950704000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-condors-return-to-the-skies-after-near-extinction","title":"California Condors Return to the Skies After Near Extinction","publishDate":1505950704,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>BIG SUR -- In a remote, rugged valley overlooking the Pacific Ocean, researchers closely monitor an endangered icon: the California condor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The giant birds flap their wings and circle the sky before perching on branches and observing their observers. Wildlife biologist Amy List uses a handheld antenna to track the birds, which wear radio transmitters and numbered tags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we don't know what they're doing, we don't know what's going wrong,\" said List, who works for the Ventana Wildlife Society, which manages the condor sanctuary in Big Sur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three decades after being pushed to the brink of extinction, the California condor is making a comeback in the wild, but constant vigilance is needed to ensure the endangered bird doesn't reverse course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the world's largest birds with a wingspan up to 10 feet, the condor once patrolled the sky from Mexico to British Columbia. But its population plummeted in the 20th century due to lead poisoning, hunting and habitat destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1987, wildlife officials captured the last remaining 22 condors and took them to the San Diego and Los Angeles zoos to be protected and bred in captivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those efforts have led to a slow but steady recovery for a species that reproduces slowly compared with other birds. There are now roughly 450 condors, including about 270 in the wild in California, Arizona, Utah and northeastern Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans also are underway to release some captive-bred condors in Redwood National Park in 2019 to establish a population near the California-Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal officials said in August that for the first time in nearly 40 years, condors were roosting in the Blue Ridge National Wildlife Refuge, expanding to their historical range in the southern Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another milestone was reached this summer: the first \"third generation\" condor was born in the wild in California since the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're seeing very encouraging results that the condors can become self-sustaining again,\" said Kelly Sorenson, who heads the conservation group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While condors still face threats from exposure to mercury and the pesticide DDT, biologists say the biggest danger is lead ammunition, which can poison the scavengers when they eat dead animals shot with lead bullets. California banned the use of lead ammunition near condor feeding grounds in 2008 and will be the first state to ban lead bullets in all hunting in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're already starting to see fewer lead deaths. The condors are surviving longer. Their blood-lead levels are coming down,\" Sorenson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some gun owners complain that copper bullets are more expensive and less effective than lead and point to other possible sources of lead, such as paint and metal garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Condors are getting lead poisoning. The question is, are they getting it from lead ammunition?\" said Chuck Michel, president of the California Rifle & Pistol Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the San Diego Zoo celebrated the birth of its 200th condor this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we were caring for the birds, trying to protect them and provide sanctuary, we were literally writing the book how you propagate a species, how you genetically manage it and prepare it for release back in the wild,\" said Michael Mace, the zoo's birds curator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After up to a year at the zoo, chicks are taken to a release site such as the Big Sur sanctuary, where a flock has grown to about 90 condors that travel between Big Sur and Pinnacles National Park. They scavenge, breed and raise chicks on their own, under the close watch of List, the wildlife biologist, and her colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hope that I'm out of a job soon because condors don't need to be managed in the future,\" she said. \"I hope that they're self-sustaining and wild and free, and nobody needs to trap or tag or monitor them at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"One of the world's largest birds with a wingspan up to 10 feet, the condor once patrolled the sky from Mexico to British Columbia. But its population plummeted in the 20th century due to lead poisoning, hunting and habitat destruction.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1506008184,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":645},"headData":{"title":"California Condors Return to the Skies After Near Extinction | KQED","description":"One of the world's largest birds with a wingspan up to 10 feet, the condor once patrolled the sky from Mexico to British Columbia. But its population plummeted in the 20th century due to lead poisoning, hunting and habitat destruction.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Condors Return to the Skies After Near Extinction","datePublished":"2017-09-20T23:38:24.000Z","dateModified":"2017-09-21T15:36:24.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11618107 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11618107","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/09/20/california-condors-return-to-the-skies-after-near-extinction/","disqusTitle":"California Condors Return to the Skies After Near Extinction","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Terence Chea\u003cbr />Associated Press\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11618107/california-condors-return-to-the-skies-after-near-extinction","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>BIG SUR -- In a remote, rugged valley overlooking the Pacific Ocean, researchers closely monitor an endangered icon: the California condor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The giant birds flap their wings and circle the sky before perching on branches and observing their observers. Wildlife biologist Amy List uses a handheld antenna to track the birds, which wear radio transmitters and numbered tags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we don't know what they're doing, we don't know what's going wrong,\" said List, who works for the Ventana Wildlife Society, which manages the condor sanctuary in Big Sur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three decades after being pushed to the brink of extinction, the California condor is making a comeback in the wild, but constant vigilance is needed to ensure the endangered bird doesn't reverse course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the world's largest birds with a wingspan up to 10 feet, the condor once patrolled the sky from Mexico to British Columbia. But its population plummeted in the 20th century due to lead poisoning, hunting and habitat destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1987, wildlife officials captured the last remaining 22 condors and took them to the San Diego and Los Angeles zoos to be protected and bred in captivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those efforts have led to a slow but steady recovery for a species that reproduces slowly compared with other birds. There are now roughly 450 condors, including about 270 in the wild in California, Arizona, Utah and northeastern Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans also are underway to release some captive-bred condors in Redwood National Park in 2019 to establish a population near the California-Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal officials said in August that for the first time in nearly 40 years, condors were roosting in the Blue Ridge National Wildlife Refuge, expanding to their historical range in the southern Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another milestone was reached this summer: the first \"third generation\" condor was born in the wild in California since the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're seeing very encouraging results that the condors can become self-sustaining again,\" said Kelly Sorenson, who heads the conservation group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While condors still face threats from exposure to mercury and the pesticide DDT, biologists say the biggest danger is lead ammunition, which can poison the scavengers when they eat dead animals shot with lead bullets. California banned the use of lead ammunition near condor feeding grounds in 2008 and will be the first state to ban lead bullets in all hunting in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're already starting to see fewer lead deaths. The condors are surviving longer. Their blood-lead levels are coming down,\" Sorenson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some gun owners complain that copper bullets are more expensive and less effective than lead and point to other possible sources of lead, such as paint and metal garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Condors are getting lead poisoning. The question is, are they getting it from lead ammunition?\" said Chuck Michel, president of the California Rifle & Pistol Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the San Diego Zoo celebrated the birth of its 200th condor this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we were caring for the birds, trying to protect them and provide sanctuary, we were literally writing the book how you propagate a species, how you genetically manage it and prepare it for release back in the wild,\" said Michael Mace, the zoo's birds curator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After up to a year at the zoo, chicks are taken to a release site such as the Big Sur sanctuary, where a flock has grown to about 90 condors that travel between Big Sur and Pinnacles National Park. They scavenge, breed and raise chicks on their own, under the close watch of List, the wildlife biologist, and her colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hope that I'm out of a job soon because condors don't need to be managed in the future,\" she said. \"I hope that they're self-sustaining and wild and free, and nobody needs to trap or tag or monitor them at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11618107/california-condors-return-to-the-skies-after-near-extinction","authors":["byline_news_11618107"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_21635","news_3025"],"featImg":"news_11618118","label":"news_72"},"news_11553538":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11553538","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11553538","score":null,"sort":[1499726324000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"after-decades-of-pollution-state-details-cleanup-from-l-a-s-exide-battery-plant","title":"After Decades of Pollution, State Details Cleanup From L.A.’s Exide Battery Plant","publishDate":1499726324,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>State regulators have released plans to clean up lead contamination from thousands of homes near the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon, just east of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials call it the biggest industrial waste cleanup project in California, and one of the largest in the country. But they said their funding -- \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3882495-2-17-16-Exide-Letter.html#document/p1/a360466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$176.6 million\u003c/a> allocated by state legislators last year -- is only sufficient to clean up about a quarter of the estimated 10,000 properties that have been contaminated in a 1.7 mile-radius around the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) hopes to pick a cleanup contractor next month and work should start shortly after that, said Mohsen Nazemi, who is overseeing the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"35xTUe4SHNIMlF8WoWwC5xFUNre4Rj1X\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators measure contamination by its concentration, expressed as parts per million. For the Exide project, the DTSC will give the highest priority to properties it considers most contaminated and that pose the greatest risk to vulnerable people. Lead is a potent neurotoxin. \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs379/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Studies have found\u003c/a> young children are especially vulnerable to lead exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the top of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3890581-7-6-2017-Cleanup-Plan-Exec-Summary-English-Final.html#document/p4/a361487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DTSC's priority list\u003c/a> will be:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Homes with soil lead concentrations of at least 400 parts per million.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Residential properties where cumulative sampling finds contamination at less than 400 parts per million, but that have hot spots of at least 1,000 parts per million.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Day care and child care centers with soil lead concentrations of 80 parts per million or higher that have not yet been cleaned.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Originally, the cleanup set a safety threshold of 80 parts per million. DTSC director Barbara Lee said the department still will clean the properties it can work on now to that level. But cleaning up where the contamination is between 80 and 400 parts per million \"depends entirely on available funding,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11560064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11560064\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Boyle Heights resident Claudia Gonzalez says she tries to keep her 7-month-old daughter Perla’s hands very clean, for fear that the baby might be poisoned by lead contamination in the neighborhood. Boyle Heights is a center of community activism concerning Exide.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-960x643.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-375x251.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boyle Heights resident Claudia Gonzalez says she tries to keep her 7-month-old daughter Perla’s hands very clean, for fear that the baby might be poisoned by lead contamination in the neighborhood. Boyle Heights is a center of community activism concerning Exide. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The DTSC's plan does include some concessions to local concerns. The draft plan had proposed to give the highest priority to properties with lead contamination at or above 1,000 parts per million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That drew criticism from Angelo Bellomo, deputy director for health protection at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. He noted that at that level, the soil would be contaminated enough that it would have to go to specially licensed landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further, he predicted that the DTSC might underestimate some of the worst contamination, because the department arrives at its figures by averaging all the lead it discovers on a property. He cautioned that might inappropriately minimize the health threat posed by a spot of very high contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Nazemi stood by the department's method for calculating contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"MnttNWpqmZbh9cp75FCKocNXcYwYCL13\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department's final cleanup plan drops the threshold for priority cleanup significantly, to 400 parts per million. Department director Lee pointed out that is also the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's standard for residential cleanups and the benchmark that the state Department of Public Health uses for flagging contamination in children's play areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final plan also takes hot spots into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nazemi said the department took heed of another community concern as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, the DTSC had proposed to give the highest priority to homes where young children or pregnant women live. But Nazemi said many people pointed out that children and pregnant women regularly visit other homes in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We took all that to heart, and that's why the prioritization in the final cleanup plan is the way it is,\" Nazemi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11553819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11553819 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1285\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-960x643.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-375x251.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As members of the news media look on, East Los Angeles resident Tomás Cortes (L) answers community health worker Lindsey Lastra's questions about his and his family's health. Lastra is a community liaison for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Hundreds of volunteers from county agencies and community organizations joined in a survey recently to identify the possible risks and health consequences of lead contamination caused by the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jill Johnston, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California who serves on a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/ExideAdvisory.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DTSC community advisory group\u003c/a>, welcomed those changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think what they have here is a lot more clear than what they had presented earlier,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Resurrection Catholic Church in Boyle Heights, a center of community activism concerning Exide, Monsignor John Moretta said he's still concerned that the cleanup does not appear to address parkways. While it's true that those tree yards are public and not formally part of residential properties, people regularly cross them and children play on them, Moretta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he'll continue to demand attention to that issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide's neighbors have been increasingly critical of the DTSC's oversight and cleanup plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There’s no way in heck that the DTSC should be in charge of the cleanup because all they're going to do is try to cover their tracks as to how much they messed up.'\u003ccite>Joe Gonzalez, cancer patient and Exide neighbor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The battery plant shut down two years ago. Just before it closed, it was recycling as many as 40,000 car batteries a day. Authorities believe it vented a lot of pollution, showering nearby homes with lead dust for decades. The DTSC \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2492399-exides-interim-permit.html#document/p1/a256852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">let the polluter operate for 33 years\u003c/a> on a permit that was supposed to be temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released results of a community \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3883215-ExideCommunitySurvey.html\">survey \u003c/a>that showed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>48 percent of those questioned had at least one child under 6 years of age, or that such children spent time in their homes and yards.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>65 percent of those surveyed reported that their yards had been tested for lead. But of those, more than half said they hadn't received their testing results.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>52 percent of those surveyed said they're not satisfied with the pace of the cleanup.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In an email, Department of Toxic Substances Control spokeswoman Abbott Dutton writes that the DTSC is trying to protect children who might be exposed to Exide's lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The health and safety of this community, especially the youngest and most vulnerable, is the department’s top priority,\" the email states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The proposed cleanup is the largest of its kind undertaken in California; it demonstrates the Administration’s strong commitment to protecting the health of those who live in these communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11553822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11553822 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exide neighbor Joe Gonzalez blames a lifetime of exposure to contaminants from the battery recycling plant for his terminal cancer \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dutton notes that DTSC contractors have taken samples from some 8,221 parcels out of the total 10,129 in the area it is assigned to investigate. The department has mailed lab-certified results to the property owners of more than half the sites tested, and weekly shipments continue, Dutton writes. And she states the department holds regular workshops in how to read the reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to criticisms over the pace of the cleanup, Dutton points out that work was suspended when the department was required to prepare an environmental impact report under the California Environmental Quality Act. She notes that Gov. Jerry Brown originally proposed waiving the requirement for a report, but the department acceded to community and state legislative concerns and proceeded with the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a press conference last week to announce the results of the community survey, lifelong Exide neighbor Joe Gonzalez said he no longer trusts what the DTSC says. He suspects his two cancer diagnoses are linked to a lifetime of exposure to contaminants from the plant. He blames the DTSC for not enforcing environmental laws sooner, and he thoroughly distrusts the current cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is what happens when you put the fox in charge of the hen house,\" he said. \"There's no way in heck that the DTSC should be in charge of the cleanup because all they’re going to do is try to cover their tracks as how much they messed up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11560073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11560073 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-800x613.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis (R) called on state officials to work faster on cleaning up homes contaminated by lead dust from the Exide battery recycling plant at a press conference in June.\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-800x613.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-1020x782.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-1180x905.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-960x736.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-240x184.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-375x288.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-520x399.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis (R), at a press conference in June, called on state officials to work faster on cleaning up homes contaminated by lead dust from the Exide battery recycling plant. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One big question remains: how to pay to clean up the properties not covered by the DTSC's recently announced plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis estimates the total cleanup cost at $500 million. At the press conference where the survey results were announced, Solis urged state officials to find new funding, including expedited action on applying funds from\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a new state fee \u003c/a>on car batteries to cover cleanup costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But DTSC director Lee said it's too soon to predict how much money that fee will raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide is\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3891368-IndependentReviewPanelSummary.html#document/p11/a361633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> legally bound \u003c/a>to pay $26 million to help pay for cleaning up the contamination it caused to homes near the plant. So far, it's \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3891368-IndependentReviewPanelSummary.html#document/p11/a361635\">chipped in $9 million\u003c/a>, with another $5 million due in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Regulators say they have only enough funding to clean about a quarter of an estimated 10,000 contaminated properties.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1499736713,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1558},"headData":{"title":"After Decades of Pollution, State Details Cleanup From L.A.’s Exide Battery Plant | KQED","description":"Regulators say they have only enough funding to clean about a quarter of an estimated 10,000 contaminated properties.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"After Decades of Pollution, State Details Cleanup From L.A.’s Exide Battery Plant","datePublished":"2017-07-10T22:38:44.000Z","dateModified":"2017-07-11T01:31:53.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11553538 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11553538","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/10/after-decades-of-pollution-state-details-cleanup-from-l-a-s-exide-battery-plant/","disqusTitle":"After Decades of Pollution, State Details Cleanup From L.A.’s Exide Battery Plant","path":"/news/11553538/after-decades-of-pollution-state-details-cleanup-from-l-a-s-exide-battery-plant","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>State regulators have released plans to clean up lead contamination from thousands of homes near the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon, just east of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials call it the biggest industrial waste cleanup project in California, and one of the largest in the country. But they said their funding -- \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3882495-2-17-16-Exide-Letter.html#document/p1/a360466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$176.6 million\u003c/a> allocated by state legislators last year -- is only sufficient to clean up about a quarter of the estimated 10,000 properties that have been contaminated in a 1.7 mile-radius around the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) hopes to pick a cleanup contractor next month and work should start shortly after that, said Mohsen Nazemi, who is overseeing the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators measure contamination by its concentration, expressed as parts per million. For the Exide project, the DTSC will give the highest priority to properties it considers most contaminated and that pose the greatest risk to vulnerable people. Lead is a potent neurotoxin. \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs379/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Studies have found\u003c/a> young children are especially vulnerable to lead exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the top of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3890581-7-6-2017-Cleanup-Plan-Exec-Summary-English-Final.html#document/p4/a361487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DTSC's priority list\u003c/a> will be:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Homes with soil lead concentrations of at least 400 parts per million.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Residential properties where cumulative sampling finds contamination at less than 400 parts per million, but that have hot spots of at least 1,000 parts per million.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Day care and child care centers with soil lead concentrations of 80 parts per million or higher that have not yet been cleaned.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Originally, the cleanup set a safety threshold of 80 parts per million. DTSC director Barbara Lee said the department still will clean the properties it can work on now to that level. But cleaning up where the contamination is between 80 and 400 parts per million \"depends entirely on available funding,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11560064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11560064\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Boyle Heights resident Claudia Gonzalez says she tries to keep her 7-month-old daughter Perla’s hands very clean, for fear that the baby might be poisoned by lead contamination in the neighborhood. Boyle Heights is a center of community activism concerning Exide.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-960x643.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-375x251.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boyle Heights resident Claudia Gonzalez says she tries to keep her 7-month-old daughter Perla’s hands very clean, for fear that the baby might be poisoned by lead contamination in the neighborhood. Boyle Heights is a center of community activism concerning Exide. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The DTSC's plan does include some concessions to local concerns. The draft plan had proposed to give the highest priority to properties with lead contamination at or above 1,000 parts per million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That drew criticism from Angelo Bellomo, deputy director for health protection at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. He noted that at that level, the soil would be contaminated enough that it would have to go to specially licensed landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further, he predicted that the DTSC might underestimate some of the worst contamination, because the department arrives at its figures by averaging all the lead it discovers on a property. He cautioned that might inappropriately minimize the health threat posed by a spot of very high contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Nazemi stood by the department's method for calculating contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department's final cleanup plan drops the threshold for priority cleanup significantly, to 400 parts per million. Department director Lee pointed out that is also the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's standard for residential cleanups and the benchmark that the state Department of Public Health uses for flagging contamination in children's play areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final plan also takes hot spots into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nazemi said the department took heed of another community concern as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, the DTSC had proposed to give the highest priority to homes where young children or pregnant women live. But Nazemi said many people pointed out that children and pregnant women regularly visit other homes in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We took all that to heart, and that's why the prioritization in the final cleanup plan is the way it is,\" Nazemi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11553819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11553819 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1285\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-960x643.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-375x251.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As members of the news media look on, East Los Angeles resident Tomás Cortes (L) answers community health worker Lindsey Lastra's questions about his and his family's health. Lastra is a community liaison for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Hundreds of volunteers from county agencies and community organizations joined in a survey recently to identify the possible risks and health consequences of lead contamination caused by the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jill Johnston, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California who serves on a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/ExideAdvisory.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DTSC community advisory group\u003c/a>, welcomed those changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think what they have here is a lot more clear than what they had presented earlier,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Resurrection Catholic Church in Boyle Heights, a center of community activism concerning Exide, Monsignor John Moretta said he's still concerned that the cleanup does not appear to address parkways. While it's true that those tree yards are public and not formally part of residential properties, people regularly cross them and children play on them, Moretta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he'll continue to demand attention to that issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide's neighbors have been increasingly critical of the DTSC's oversight and cleanup plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There’s no way in heck that the DTSC should be in charge of the cleanup because all they're going to do is try to cover their tracks as to how much they messed up.'\u003ccite>Joe Gonzalez, cancer patient and Exide neighbor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The battery plant shut down two years ago. Just before it closed, it was recycling as many as 40,000 car batteries a day. Authorities believe it vented a lot of pollution, showering nearby homes with lead dust for decades. The DTSC \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2492399-exides-interim-permit.html#document/p1/a256852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">let the polluter operate for 33 years\u003c/a> on a permit that was supposed to be temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released results of a community \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3883215-ExideCommunitySurvey.html\">survey \u003c/a>that showed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>48 percent of those questioned had at least one child under 6 years of age, or that such children spent time in their homes and yards.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>65 percent of those surveyed reported that their yards had been tested for lead. But of those, more than half said they hadn't received their testing results.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>52 percent of those surveyed said they're not satisfied with the pace of the cleanup.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In an email, Department of Toxic Substances Control spokeswoman Abbott Dutton writes that the DTSC is trying to protect children who might be exposed to Exide's lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The health and safety of this community, especially the youngest and most vulnerable, is the department’s top priority,\" the email states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The proposed cleanup is the largest of its kind undertaken in California; it demonstrates the Administration’s strong commitment to protecting the health of those who live in these communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11553822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11553822 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exide neighbor Joe Gonzalez blames a lifetime of exposure to contaminants from the battery recycling plant for his terminal cancer \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dutton notes that DTSC contractors have taken samples from some 8,221 parcels out of the total 10,129 in the area it is assigned to investigate. The department has mailed lab-certified results to the property owners of more than half the sites tested, and weekly shipments continue, Dutton writes. And she states the department holds regular workshops in how to read the reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to criticisms over the pace of the cleanup, Dutton points out that work was suspended when the department was required to prepare an environmental impact report under the California Environmental Quality Act. She notes that Gov. Jerry Brown originally proposed waiving the requirement for a report, but the department acceded to community and state legislative concerns and proceeded with the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a press conference last week to announce the results of the community survey, lifelong Exide neighbor Joe Gonzalez said he no longer trusts what the DTSC says. He suspects his two cancer diagnoses are linked to a lifetime of exposure to contaminants from the plant. He blames the DTSC for not enforcing environmental laws sooner, and he thoroughly distrusts the current cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is what happens when you put the fox in charge of the hen house,\" he said. \"There's no way in heck that the DTSC should be in charge of the cleanup because all they’re going to do is try to cover their tracks as how much they messed up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11560073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11560073 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-800x613.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis (R) called on state officials to work faster on cleaning up homes contaminated by lead dust from the Exide battery recycling plant at a press conference in June.\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-800x613.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-1020x782.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-1180x905.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-960x736.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-240x184.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-375x288.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-520x399.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis (R), at a press conference in June, called on state officials to work faster on cleaning up homes contaminated by lead dust from the Exide battery recycling plant. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One big question remains: how to pay to clean up the properties not covered by the DTSC's recently announced plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis estimates the total cleanup cost at $500 million. At the press conference where the survey results were announced, Solis urged state officials to find new funding, including expedited action on applying funds from\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a new state fee \u003c/a>on car batteries to cover cleanup costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But DTSC director Lee said it's too soon to predict how much money that fee will raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide is\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3891368-IndependentReviewPanelSummary.html#document/p11/a361633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> legally bound \u003c/a>to pay $26 million to help pay for cleaning up the contamination it caused to homes near the plant. So far, it's \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3891368-IndependentReviewPanelSummary.html#document/p11/a361635\">chipped in $9 million\u003c/a>, with another $5 million due in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11553538/after-decades-of-pollution-state-details-cleanup-from-l-a-s-exide-battery-plant","authors":["219"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_457","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_20833","news_18299","news_3025","news_4","news_19960","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11559988","label":"news_72"},"news_121040":{"type":"posts","id":"news_121040","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"121040","score":null,"sort":[1387329146000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"santa-clara-judges-ruling-could-trigger-huge-lead-paint-cleanup","title":"Santa Clara Judge's Ruling Could Trigger Huge Lead-Paint Cleanup ","publishDate":1387329146,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/17/judge-orders-companies-to-pay-billion-dollars-for-lead-paint-cleanup/119879793_6b06a70074_z/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121059\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-121059\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/119879793_6b06a70074_z.jpg\" alt=\"(Wayne Marshall/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/wayneandwax/\">Wayne Marshall\u003c/a>/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monday, a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24739023/billion-dollar-ruling-local-lawsuit-against-lead-paint\" target=\"_blank\">a preliminary ruling\u003c/a>(embedded at the end of this post) that requires three companies to pay $1.1 billion to help clean up toxic lead-paint contamination in older homes. Deciding a case first filed 13 years ago, Judge James P. Kleinberg found that Sherman-Williams, NL Industries and ConAgra were each responsible for a public nuisance created through the use of lead paint. Lead is a highly toxic metal that can damage the brain and central nervous system. Lead paint in older homes has long been established as a health threat to young children, a group that's particularly vulnerable to lead's toxic effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $1.1 billion will go to the seven California counties — Santa Clara, Alameda, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Mateo, Solano and Ventura — and to three cities: Oakland, San Francisco and San Diego — that brought the original suit. The lion's share of the fund, $605 million, will go to Los Angeles County, which is believed to have more lead-contaminated homes than anywhere else in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund will be administered by the state and is to be used to \"remediate\" lead paint in more than 50,000 housing units built before 1978. Remediation efforts will include home inspections, enclosing or encapsulating lead-painted surfaces under new paint, plaster or sheetrock, or outright replacement of doors, windows and other building elements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the defendants criticized Kleinberg's decision, \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-17/billion-dollar-lead-paint-verdict-ends-industrys-win-streak\" target=\"_blank\">as reported by Bloomberg-BusinessWeek\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Bonnie J. Campbell, a spokeswoman for the paint manufacturers, said via e-mail that the decision is “at odds with California law and judicial decisions across the country that have uniformly rejected similar public nuisance claims.” The ruling, she added, penalizes the manufacturers for “the truthful advertising of lawful products, done at a time when government officials routinely specified those products for use in residential buildings,” and “rewards scofflaw landlords who are responsible for the risk to children from poorly maintained lead paint.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bloomberg-BusinessWeek also noted that until Kleinberg's ruling, the paint industry had beaten similar lawsuits in seven other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/125354771&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Mina Kim talked today to attorney Joseph Cotchett, one of the attorneys who represented the counties and cities that brought the lead-paint suit. He says that Kleinberg's order could bolster public efforts like California's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/CLPPB/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program\u003c/a>. Cotchett said that program \"has been effective — yes, it has — but unfortunately like a lot of other state agencies and/or programs, it has been cut back, cut back, cut back, and our position was that the paint companies should come in and help them in inspecting these homes. Of course, I don't have to tell you what the paint companies said to us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_72501\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/192147982/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Three firms ordered to pay $1.1 billion to deal with lead paint in older homes. Appeal is expected. 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Deciding a case first filed 13 years ago, Judge James P. Kleinberg found that Sherman-Williams, NL Industries and ConAgra were each responsible for a public nuisance created through the use of lead paint. Lead is a highly toxic metal that can damage the brain and central nervous system. Lead paint in older homes has long been established as a health threat to young children, a group that's particularly vulnerable to lead's toxic effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $1.1 billion will go to the seven California counties — Santa Clara, Alameda, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Mateo, Solano and Ventura — and to three cities: Oakland, San Francisco and San Diego — that brought the original suit. The lion's share of the fund, $605 million, will go to Los Angeles County, which is believed to have more lead-contaminated homes than anywhere else in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund will be administered by the state and is to be used to \"remediate\" lead paint in more than 50,000 housing units built before 1978. Remediation efforts will include home inspections, enclosing or encapsulating lead-painted surfaces under new paint, plaster or sheetrock, or outright replacement of doors, windows and other building elements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the defendants criticized Kleinberg's decision, \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-17/billion-dollar-lead-paint-verdict-ends-industrys-win-streak\" target=\"_blank\">as reported by Bloomberg-BusinessWeek\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Bonnie J. Campbell, a spokeswoman for the paint manufacturers, said via e-mail that the decision is “at odds with California law and judicial decisions across the country that have uniformly rejected similar public nuisance claims.” The ruling, she added, penalizes the manufacturers for “the truthful advertising of lawful products, done at a time when government officials routinely specified those products for use in residential buildings,” and “rewards scofflaw landlords who are responsible for the risk to children from poorly maintained lead paint.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bloomberg-BusinessWeek also noted that until Kleinberg's ruling, the paint industry had beaten similar lawsuits in seven other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/125354771&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Mina Kim talked today to attorney Joseph Cotchett, one of the attorneys who represented the counties and cities that brought the lead-paint suit. He says that Kleinberg's order could bolster public efforts like California's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/CLPPB/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program\u003c/a>. Cotchett said that program \"has been effective — yes, it has — but unfortunately like a lot of other state agencies and/or programs, it has been cut back, cut back, cut back, and our position was that the paint companies should come in and help them in inspecting these homes. Of course, I don't have to tell you what the paint companies said to us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_72501\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/192147982/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/121040/santa-clara-judges-ruling-could-trigger-huge-lead-paint-cleanup","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_5358","news_3025","news_5355","news_5356","news_5359"],"featImg":"news_121059","label":"news_6944"},"news_74069":{"type":"posts","id":"news_74069","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"74069","score":null,"sort":[1345748747000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"red-vines-black-licorice-recalled","title":"Red Vines Black Licorice Recalled Due to Excessive Lead","publishDate":1345748747,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/Documents/fdbLiCLiC07.pdf\">CDPH: Images of candy found to contain excessive lead\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>KQED's Sarah Baughn today spoke to Pat Kennelly, chief of the Food Safety Section for the California Dept of Public health, about the recall of one lot of Red Vines Black Licorice Twists. The department found more than twice the level per serving considered safe to consume daily by children under six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candy is manufactured by Union City's American Licorice Co., which voluntarily recalled the product. Info on the recall from the company:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Only one pound bag (16 oz.) of Red Vines\u003csup>®\u003c/sup> Black Licorice Twists with a “Best Before Date” of \u003cstrong>020413\u003c/strong> are affected by this recall. The “Best Before Date” is located in black ink on the back of the package. American Licorice is notifying consumers not to eat this candy and asking they return to their place of purchase for a full refund.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Kennelly said the department has had an ongoing lead-testing program since 2006 for candy products, starting with imports from overseas and south of the border, then expanded to domestic companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Out of fairness and out of concern that we're looking at all products, we've continued to look at all candy products in the marketplace,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No illneses have yet to be associated with the licorice, Kennelly said. He said the department is working with the company to identify the source of the contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Licorice Company is \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanlicorice.com/2012/08/red-vines-black-licorice-recall-notice/\">answering questions about the recall\u003c/a> on its website, and the California Dept of Public Health has an\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/Documents/fdbLiCLiC07.pdf\"> FAQ up about lead and lead-contaminated products\u003c/a>. Some safety tips:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What can I do to prevent lead poisoning and elevated blood lead levels?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California regulations to prevent childhood lead poisoning require that, for all children, the child’s health care provider give anticipatory guidance to prevent lead exposure at every periodic health assessment from age 6 months to 6 years. Blood lead testing is required at 12 and 24 months for children enrolled in publicly supported programs, such as Medi-Cal, Child Health and Disability Prevention, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) and Head Start. Blood lead testing is also required for other children considered at increased risk for lead exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because young children often put their hands and toys in their mouths, their hands and toys should be cleaned frequently. This can prevent the transfer of lead from the environment into their mouths. In addition, maintaining a good diet high in iron, calcium and vitamin C reduces lead absorption by the child’s body.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department also has a link, updated July 26, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/Documents/fdbLiCLiC07.pdf\">photos of candies that have been found to contain excessive lead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1345765003,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":458},"headData":{"title":"Red Vines Black Licorice Recalled Due to Excessive Lead | KQED","description":"CDPH: Images of candy found to contain excessive lead KQED's Sarah Baughn today spoke to Pat Kennelly, chief of the Food Safety Section for the California Dept of Public health, about the recall of one lot of Red Vines Black Licorice Twists. 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The department found more than twice the level per serving considered safe to consume daily by children under six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candy is manufactured by Union City's American Licorice Co., which voluntarily recalled the product. Info on the recall from the company:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Only one pound bag (16 oz.) of Red Vines\u003csup>®\u003c/sup> Black Licorice Twists with a “Best Before Date” of \u003cstrong>020413\u003c/strong> are affected by this recall. The “Best Before Date” is located in black ink on the back of the package. American Licorice is notifying consumers not to eat this candy and asking they return to their place of purchase for a full refund.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Kennelly said the department has had an ongoing lead-testing program since 2006 for candy products, starting with imports from overseas and south of the border, then expanded to domestic companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Out of fairness and out of concern that we're looking at all products, we've continued to look at all candy products in the marketplace,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No illneses have yet to be associated with the licorice, Kennelly said. He said the department is working with the company to identify the source of the contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Licorice Company is \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanlicorice.com/2012/08/red-vines-black-licorice-recall-notice/\">answering questions about the recall\u003c/a> on its website, and the California Dept of Public Health has an\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/Documents/fdbLiCLiC07.pdf\"> FAQ up about lead and lead-contaminated products\u003c/a>. Some safety tips:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What can I do to prevent lead poisoning and elevated blood lead levels?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California regulations to prevent childhood lead poisoning require that, for all children, the child’s health care provider give anticipatory guidance to prevent lead exposure at every periodic health assessment from age 6 months to 6 years. Blood lead testing is required at 12 and 24 months for children enrolled in publicly supported programs, such as Medi-Cal, Child Health and Disability Prevention, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) and Head Start. Blood lead testing is also required for other children considered at increased risk for lead exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because young children often put their hands and toys in their mouths, their hands and toys should be cleaned frequently. This can prevent the transfer of lead from the environment into their mouths. 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