toxic big island school grounds

[geochem]

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Originally posted by ironyak

Or is the whole exercise here just a justification to avoid any sense of moral or financial obligation?

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No, as I stated earlier, the objective is to encourage actions that actually have a chance to make a difference rather than some headline catching, feel good, waste of time and money that doesn't improve the situation for the lead-exposed children.

By an interesting coincidence, I attended a meeting today with one of the DOH Toxicologists who was involved with the earlier lead survey - and her experience has been that the majority of the high lead exposures for young children have occurred at the children's homes: kids playing in their home yard where Daddy happens to work on cars and a collection of dead lead-acid batteries are kicking around; kids being fed out of (imported) dishes with lead-rich glazing; kids handling (imported) religious trinkets fabricated from lead based alloys, etc.

So I stand by my original comments - ready, fire, aim makes lots of noise, but doesn't really accomplish much else.