Keeping Your Lead Bucket Empty
I recall a conversation regarding a cancer bucket. What is a cancer bucket, you ask? It was a metaphorical way of explaining that once you are prone to getting cancer (which was a genetic thing in their case), there were behaviors that could start filling the cancer...
New EPA Dust Clearance Rules Are A Beast
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 clearance was a...
CLPPP vs CLPRP Living In Fear Of Lead Poisoning
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 associated...
Lead Paint Detective Discovers Lumetallix
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 Poisoning...
Kids Deserve To Be Lead Free
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...
EPA Beefs Up Dust Regulations
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 hasn't...
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Lead Locators Heads To Kansas City MO
The 2025 National Lead and Healthy Housing Conference is being held in early August in Kansas City, Missouri, at the Westin Town Center. Lead Locators is an exhibitor, and I will be mingling with the crowd as well as attending the breakout sessions. Who's Who In The...
EPA Cover-Up Words
EPA Cover-Up. Ohh, Breaking news? Tell me more. Did I get the scoop? I recently had a conversation with a lead inspector on the Eastern half of the country, and I heard him say a word that piqued my ears. He said that the client needed to encapsulate the chipped paint...
Lead Dust Detection and NVG’s
I was a Flight Paramedic in Idaho for 35 years. I started as a volunteer with the South West Idaho division of the Back Country Medical Rescue Team. I carried a pager when I wasn't on shift as a paramedic on the ambulance. Then, when Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical...
More Canaries In The Coal Mine
I just received another sad case study of leaded children that reportedly occurred several years ago over a several-year period. While enjoying living in a vintage national park housing complex, the employees were a young family of 2 with one on the way. The details...
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