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TAAG, WHE Encourage Lead Safety Awareness

Groups seek volunteers for community campaign

By Staff Reports
The Tube City Almanac
October 09, 2024
Posted in: Announcements

Tiffany Carter Siar of Take Action Advocacy Group and Women for a Healthy Environment accepts a proclamation from McKeesport Mayor Michael Cherepko at the October council meeting. (Tube City Almanac photo)

City officials have joined Take Action Advocacy Group and Women for a Healthy Environment to remind residents to get their homes checked for lead exposure.

Mayor Michael Cherepko and city council last week issued a proclamation recognizing Oct. 20-26 as National Lead Poisoning Week in McKeesport and October as Children’s Health Month.

Tiffany Carter Siar, a community health worker with WHE and TAAG, accepted the proclamation on behalf of both groups.

TAAG and WHE, based in Pittsburgh, have teamed up for a series of events in the McKeesport area designed to raise awareness of lead poisoining, especially in infants, children and pregnant mothers.

The groups are organizing a “Get the Lead Out McKeesport” campaign that is currently seeking volunteers.

Lead paint is commonly found in homes built before 1978 and the use of lead pipes for plumbing was not outlawed in Pennsylvania until 1991.

In addition, lead was once used as an additive in gasoline and can sometimes be found in the soil along busy roads and near former gas stations and auto repair shops.

Children can ingest lead by playing in homes with flaking or damaged paint, or in dirt areas in gardens and yards. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, even low levels of lead have been linked to a variety of health problems for young people, including behavioral and learning disabilities, delayed growth, hearing problems, difficulty staying alert in school, and kidney malfunctions.

From Oct. 26 to Nov. 3, the TAAG, WHE, Grow Pittsburgh, the Allegheny County Conservation District and other local groups will offer free soil testing for home gardeners who are concerned their soil may be contaminated. Registration is open online.

Originally published October 09, 2024.

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