by Joe Levitch | Apr 12, 2025 | Advice, Lead Detection, Lead Dust, Lead Testing
According to my sources, getting clearance is even more difficult due to the new lowered threshold for lead dust in federally funded projects or when Lead abatement is happening. It’s Like Taking An Open Book Test Wouldn’t it be great if you knew that...
by Joe Levitch | Mar 29, 2025 | Advice, Healthy Homes, Lead Detection, Lead Dust, Lead Testing
For years, I have been working under the assumption that a CLPPP was a program that could help prevent lead poisoning of children, as Ben Franklin said. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Ben also coincidently discovered the health risks...
by Joe Levitch | Mar 14, 2025 | Lead Detection, Lead Dust, Lead Testing
Anthony Weaver is a Lead Risk Assessor in Toledo, Ohio. The city of Toledo created its own Lead Rules in 2016. He is very connected to his community’s Public Health network. He has established himself as an expert, advocate, and educator for Childhood Lead...
by Joe Levitch | Mar 2, 2025 | Lead Detection, Lead Dust
As I write this blog, I am reminded about the dangers of not maintaining older buildings where children are present. Child occupied facilities by EPA definition are: A child-occupied facility is a building, or a portion of a building, constructed before 1978, visited...
by Joe Levitch | Feb 19, 2025 | Healthy Homes, Lead Detection, Lead Dust
The EPA recently tightened dust rules in one area of the Federal Lead World. The rule does not affect projects that are not federally funded. The EPA is aware of our product and could incorporate it into the RRP and the Federal World of Lead any day, but it...
