Asarco secret document mcmurray 73 page 1998 conf settlement purposes only epa usdoj asarco

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

RISK ASSESSMENT OF LEAD POISONING IN THE SMELTER'S ADJOINING AREA IN CIUDAD JUAREZ; CHIH: MXICO. DAVID REYES, SANIN L, ROMIEU I, DÍAZ-BARRIGA F, ORNELAS-HICKS M, LACASAÑA M. Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. EMail: iromieu@insp3.insp.mx

"We carried out an assessment of the residual risk of lead poisoning in the area close to the ASARCO smelting plant in Anapra where remediation occurred in 1973, and determined major predictors of blood lead levels in mothers and children. ...."

"Their blood lead levels ranged from 3.5 - 23.6 μg/dL with an arithmetic mean of 7.35 μg/dL (s ± 3.50), and a percentage of 30% = 10 μg/dL. Blood lead levels were inversely related to the distance to the smelter.

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We know know that Asarco, Dupont and Englehard --- all caught by EPA and the US DOJ as sending illegal wastes to be burned here (the EPA still refused to release the invoices listed by ID numbers in the 1998 73 page US DOJ EPA secret document NYTimes 10/2006) were US DOE HIGH LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL CONTRACTORS. TO THIS DAY none of them have been held responsible through the bankruptcy court for ANY of the illegal waste disposal damage to our community and its water. It is very likely that they hid under the protection of the 1940's Atomic energy act (see book on rocky flats plutonium site by Karen Iversen).

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region VI

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Re: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST

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Asarco secret document mcmurray 73 page 1998 conf settlement purposes only epa usdoj asarco

Hafnium

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Check out this stack photo

Blood lead levels were inversely related to the distance to the smelter.

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