[CPEO-BIF] Students and USS Lead, East Chicago, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

'Lead in my bones': Living a contaminated life in East Chicago

by Emily Hopkins
Indianapolis Start (IN)
October 16, 2017

"Are you concerned about your water?"

It's not a question that 13- and 14-year-old kids would typically ponder. But when Denise Abdul-Rahman asks the question to a group of middle school students, hands shoot up.

And for good reason. This isn't just any school in just any city. It's the Urban Enterprise Academy in East Chicago - a school located across the street from an EPA Superfund site.

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U.S. Smelter and Lead Refinery, Inc. was one of those companies, and for nearly 80 years, it operated on the land that now makes up the 79-acre USS Lead Superfund Site.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2017/10/16/lead-my-bones-living-contaminated-life-east-chicago/754622001/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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