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2. Lead abatement in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Lead paint removal can cost 8 to 15 dollars per square foot. [1] A kit offered by the EPA containing lead test costs 25 dollars. [2] After a house has been discovered to contain lead, its owner has four options they can pursue to prevent lead poisoning: they can encapsulate it, enclose it, remove it or replace the contaminated items.

3. Lead abatement - Wikipedia

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   There are various lead abatement techniques to remove residential lead-based paint and lead in household dusts. Encapsulation and enclosure makes the hazard of lead-based paint inaccessible, while chemical stripping, removal of abrasives, scraping with the hand, and component replacement are effective in permanently removing lead-based paints from households. [5]

4. How to test for lead paint in your home and what to do if you ...

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   Lead was often mixed into oil-based paints before 1978, the year lead paint was banned for residential use in the U.S. Over time, oil-based paints will crack in a distinctive alligator scale-like ...

5. Lead-based paint in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The District of Columbia defines "lead-based paint" as any "paint, surface coating that contains lead equal to or exceeding 0.7 milligram per square centimeter (0.7 mg/cm2) or 0.5% by weight." [9] This is more stringent than the HUD lead-based paint standard of 1.0 mg/cm2) . Some states have adopted this or similar definitions of "lead-based ...

6. Kalamazoo Homeowner Wins $115,000 After Lead-Paint Scare - AOL

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   The Consumer Product Safety Commission banned the use of lead in household paints in 1977, but homes built prior to 1978 may still contain lead-based paint. The home that the Johnson family bought ...

7. Poison Profits -- The Lead Paint Blame Game

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   From that month through January 2016, HPD issued more than 10,000 violations for dangerous lead paint conditions in units with children under 6, the age group most at risk of ingesting toxic paint. Half of the violations were in just 10 percent of the city’s zip codes, low-income neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn and northern Manhattan, a ...