Local park closed due to lead contamination.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

PS: Get off my lawn!

Especially if you're in Keaau town.
There might be arsenic in it!

On the fifth day - the scientists who studied the rivers - were forbidden to speak - or to study the rivers. -Jane Hirshfield's poem on creation

[kalakoa]

http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/news...on-unknown

Peard said the Kolekole lead might have come from paint that used to coat the "repurposed" railroad bridge. But it's possible, he said, that some of the lead in the soil came from vehicles that once used leaded fuels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead

TEL in automotive fuel was phased out starting in the U.S. in the mid-1970s because of its cumulative neurotoxicity and its damaging effect on catalytic converters.

[terracore]

I'm surprised the nanny state hasn't legislated that we're all required to wear helmets 24 hours a day.

The irony would be if after many years our cheap imported Chinese helmets had.... you guessed it.... unacceptable levels of lead.