[CPEO-BIF] Evans Metal lead smelter site, Atlanta, Georgia.

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

EPA investigation into Atlanta lead smelter

By Alison Young
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA)
October 18, 2009

Beginning in 1934, a lead smelter operated for decades near Piedmont and 
Cheshire Bridge roads in Atlanta. Its furnaces processed 5,000 tons of 
the toxic metal a year, spewing lead dust from its smokestacks that 
likely built up in the soil of surrounding properties, according to 
records and interviews.

But unlike smelters across the country that were cleaned up because of 
the danger posed by the legacy of lead fallout, the old Evans Metal Co. 
smelter was forgotten by state and federal regulators.

An investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, using historic 
smelter industry directories and other public records, has prompted the 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to open an investigation of the 
site, also known as Metalico-Evans, said EPA spokeswoman Dawn Harris-Young.

The smelter property, now home to a concrete plant, is in a pocket of 
industrial and commercial buildings next to I-85 and a few blocks across 
Cheshire Bridge Road from some houses in the Morningside neighborhood. 
Several schools and day care centers are within a three-mile radius.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/epa-investigation-into-atlanta-165322.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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