Other
Lead References of Interest
Articles from Seattle
PI on lead in drinking water of Seattle Schools.
Washington State Department of Health - Division
of Environmental Health.
Site has information on lead in drinking water and lead
in school drinking water - see links on DOH/DEH page.
Lead
in Seattle Schools - This site was created by concerned parents
to distribute information relevant to lead and other heavy metal
contamination in Seattle Public School drinking water. This includes
reports and documents obtained from the Seattle School District
about their lead contamination tests of drinking water in the schools
and other published information.
Lead
in Washington DC water - latest news and information.
Centers
for Disease Control report on blood lead levels among people
living in homes with lead service lines - Blood Lead Levels in Residents
of Homes with Elevated Lead in Tap Water --- District of Columbia,
2004. (MMWR - April 2, 2004 / 53(12);268-270).
Testimony of
Professor Ellen K. Silbergeld, Ph.D. Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, MD.
Dana
Best, M.D., M.P.H. testimony on lead toxicity to Congress, Director,
Smoke Free Homes Project, Medical Director, Healthy Generations
Program, Assistant Professor, George Washington University, School
of Medicine and Health Sciences Children's National Medical Center,
Washington, DC , Oversight on D.C. Drinking Water - April 7, 2004.
California
Department of Health position paper on lead toxicity. The State
of California has declared lead a known animal carcinogen, and a
probable human carcinogen, and has set a Public Health Goal of 2
ppb for lead in drinking water.
EPA
Drinking Water website
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