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July 9, 2008

3,000 lawns in Idaho replaced by the EPA

  • The work started in 1991, shortly after state and federal regulators agreed on a plan for Idaho's Silver Valley.

    • SPOKANE (AP) — A massive federal effort to replace thousands of residential lawns in Idaho's Silver Valley because of mining pollution has been completed, the Environmental Protection Agency said.

    Removing and replacing some 3,000 lawns was deemed the best way to prevent children from being exposed to lead pollution, and the work started shortly after state and federal regulators agreed on a plan in 1991.


     
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