[CPEO-BIF] Lead remediation at the Colorado Smelter site in Pueblo, Colorado

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA makes headway in cleaning Pueblo yards

By Peter Roper
Pueblo Chieftain (CO)
May 14, 2019

You can’t see the lead contamination in the dirt outside 1237 Berwind St., but the work crew was busy digging up the grassy parking area — dirt that would end up in dump trucks waiting along the street.

There is a backyard, too, that needs replacing.

“And this spot right along here was a hot spot,” said Charles Leinen of the Army Corps of Engineers. He was pointing at a 2-foot-wide band of dirt next to the old house and the alley where Leinen was standing.

That meant lead contamination well above the 350-parts-per-million threshold the Environmental Protection Agency is using to determine what yards in the Colorado Smelter Superfund area need the dirt replaced.

Leinen consulted his file on the property. “Let’s just say the lead samples ranged from 387 ppm to 1,870,” he finished. That’s a hot spot.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.chieftain.com/news/20190514/epa-makes-headway-in-cleaning-pueblo-yards

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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