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August 23, 2016

Public housing project in Ind. to be destroyed because of lead

By JASON KEYSER
Associated Press

More than 1,000 residents of a northwest Indiana public housing complex have been in a state of panic and uncertainty since authorities informed them last month that their homes must be destroyed because of serious lead contamination.

A warning this summer not to allow children to play in the dirt and to wash toys because the soil is soaked with hazardous levels of lead and arsenic was the first many residents of the low income complex had heard about plans to remove tainted soil that date back to at least 2012.


 
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