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Lead-tainted Atlanta neighborhood becomes major Superfund site

March 18, 2022 Andy Miller

A westside Atlanta neighborhood contaminated with lead has been added to the EPA’s Superfund priority list, freeing up more federal funding for long-term cleanup. The English Avenue area is one of 12 sites across the nation that the Environmental Protection Agency added to its Superfund National Priorities List (NPL), the agency announced Thursday. More than…

Lead-contaminated Atlanta neighborhood may be put on federal clean-up priority list

September 8, 2021 Andy Miller

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to add a westside Atlanta area that’s contaminated with lead to the Superfund program’s National Priorities List (NPL), which would allow more federal funding for clean-up. The Superfund program, created in 1980, has the responsibility of identifying dangerously polluted sites around the nation, cleaning them up and when possible,…

A widening war against lead in west Atlanta

May 18, 2021 Andy Miller

In a well-kept west Atlanta yard Saturday, two women held up small pieces of a rock-like material they had spotted on the ground. It wasn’t rock, the two agreed: It was slag. Rosario Hernandez and Eri Saikawa know plenty about west Atlanta’s deposits of slag. The stuff is a byproduct of smelting, and many years ago people…

EPA doubling Atlanta area under investigation for lead contamination

February 24, 2020 Andy Miller

By Andy Miller and Scott Trubey The federal Environmental Protection Agency is doubling the area it’s probing for lead contamination west of downtown Atlanta, and residents and volunteer researchers said they want more help from local governments to notify neighbors and urge lead testing of children. So far, the campaign to encourage testing of children…

Digging up soil and trees: Atlanta lead cleanup begins

January 27, 2020 Andy Miller

Work teams using heavy equipment began digging up soil contaminated with lead from an empty lot in west Atlanta on Monday morning. It’s the start of an Environmental Protection Agency cleanup action that will take months to complete. Targeting a neighborhood near Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the EPA has found unsafe levels of lead — a powerful neurotoxin —in…

Missing the mark can mean living with contamination

August 17, 2020 Andy Miller

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has removed lead-contaminated soil from more than 30 properties in west Atlanta as part of a major cleanup of the area. But there is early evidence that some contaminated properties won’t get the same treatment. The yard of Terboris Barnes contains a substantial amount of lead, but Barnes recently learned…

Danger in the ground: Lead contaminates neighborhood

December 5, 2019 Andy Miller

Rosario Hernandez regularly gardens with her grandchildren at her two Atlanta properties in the English Avenue district, about a mile from Mercedes-Benz Stadium. So Hernandez, who works with Historic Westside Gardens, was alarmed when an Emory University team analyzed the soil in July 2018 and discovered it contained unsafe concentrations of lead — a potent…