Friday, September 2, 2016

West Calumet Housing Complex Faces Wrecking Ball Due to High Lead Levels

Residents of an Indiana housing complex are scrambling to find new homes after dangerously high levels of lead were found in the soil and the mayor proposed demolishing the 44-year-old development.

But as the 1,100 tenants of the condemned West Calumet Housing Complex were looking for an exit, an attorney representing some of the soon-to-be-displaced families said federal, state and city officials in East Chicago, Indiana, have known for years that residents were living atop a ticking environmental time bomb.

"The tragedy is that this could have all been avoided," attorney Barry Rooth told NBC News. He said 85 of the children he represents have been diagnosed with unsafe lead levels. "We've had at least seven years of lead exposure to a whole generation of children." 

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