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EPA to get tough on yard cleanups “We have found that some of these addresses are empty lots ...,’’ said Stinson. “Our next step is to verify those and knock on people’s doors to make sure they got what we sent and that they understand everything.”
As it stands now, the agency could be dealing with 47 yards. But Stinson said it is too early to know what the tally will be. “We will be using a new method that targets the cleanup to specific areas,” he said. The plan is to do the sampling this summer and then do the soil removal this fall when seed or sod will have a better chance of taking root, he said. When the EPA removed the soil from the yards in the late 1990s, the state agreed to pay 10 percent of the cost, which is required under the federal Superfund law. Doolan, the EPA’s project manager, said the state owed the EPA about $1.9 million with regard to the 10 percent match. By assuming the cleanup of the remaining yards, the DNR will take care of that obligation. Doolan said a person might think “they have the right to live on contamination if they want to, but sooner or later someone else will own that property. We need to protect the future buyers of that property.” Lead poisoning Blood samples taken from children in northwest Joplin in the early 1990s by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services showed that 14 percent of those sampled had lead poisoning. A probe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found that residential yard soils were contaminated with lead and that the soil was the primary cause of the lead poisoning in children. After the EPA removed the contaminated soil from 2,500 residential yards in the late 1990s, the rate of lead poisoning among children in northwest Joplin fell to 3 percent. Source: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
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