In the News | Get the Lead Out, Pittsburgh

May 27, 2019

What do you do when the corner lot is full of lead?

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Don’t go near the corner lot. That’s what Jackie Williams tells her kids — ages 11, 7 and 5 — when she takes them over to their grandmother’s house on Excelsior Street in Pittsburgh’s Allentown neighborhood. There’s lead in the ground there, the McKees Rocks resident knows. “And all these kids are...

May 24, 2019

PWSA approves reimbursement program for private lead line replacements

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority board on Friday approved a program to reimburse property owners who replaced their private lead water lines between Feb. 1, 2016, and Dec. 31, 2018. Property owners who provide a plumber’s invoice and a county health department plumbing permit will be eligible to receive a check...

Man walks around old house with lead paint

May 23, 2019

Partnerships aim to make Allegheny safe from lead hazards

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – As the Allegheny County Health Department, through mandated blood screening, is learning more about children being exposed to lead, the focus of the new Lead Safe Allegheny coalition of 16 nonprofit and public agencies is how to prevent the exposure, according to Dr. Karen Hacker, county health director. “We’re trying to get...

April 28, 2019

More children are tested for lead, while home repairs try to keep up

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -Hundreds of children throughout Allegheny County have been found with elevated levels of lead in their blood since universal screening began in 2018 and thousands more children were tested. At the same time, efforts to prevent exposure in the first place have been slow to gain momentum, including a county-led pilot program to offer property owners help in removing...

March 28, 2018

Get out more lead

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – It’s not just lead in water. Young children and women of childbearing age are exposed to lead hazards from paint and soil as well. And it’s not just in Pittsburgh. According to the health department, there are “hot spots” throughout Allegheny County. County Executive Rich Fitzgerald appointed a Lead Task Force to...

December 13, 2017

Allegheny County task force recommends program to reduce lead in rental properties

TribLIVE —Rental properties in Allegheny County should be inspected for lead in their paint and water each time they are sold to a new owner, a county lead task force recommends. The recommendation was among two dozen suggestions in the task force’s report released Tuesday . A rental inspection program in Rochester, N.Y., was identified as a...

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