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INDUSTRY DUMPED TOXIC WASTE ON HOMES AND SCHOOLS NEAR A LEAD PLANT - WHERE WAS PENCE?
Residents of the West Calumet Housing Complex learned recently that the soil outside their homes contained staggering levels of lead, one of the worst threats to children’s health.
The neighborhood is located just north of a huge former U.S. Lead smelting plant and on top of a smaller former smelting operation, in an area that was designated a Superfund site.
People are asking why their governor, Mike Pence, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, visited flood victims in Baton Rouge, La., while campaigning with Donald Trump, but has not found time to come to East Chicago.
Kara Brooks, a spokeswoman for Pence, wrote in an email that he had “directed his staff and cabinet to provide support to the federal government” there, and that "some of his staff and cabinet members" visited the area last week.
But the most pressing question for residents is why they were not informed that even the top six inches of soil in their yards had up to 30 times more lead than the level considered safe for children to play in, and that it also had hazardous levels of arsenic.
Jennifer O’Malley, a spokeswoman for the Indiana State Department of Health, said that since early July, 474 residents of the housing complex and surrounding neighborhoods had been screened for lead and that 29, including 19 children younger than 8, had elevated levels in their blood.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/us/lead-contamination-public-housing-east-chicago-indiana.html?_r=0