HandBook
ORD with assistance of Lead Safe Yard Project team has developed
a handbook during the course of the project that may be useful to
other organizers/homeowners interested in starting a similar project
in their community. If you or your community has wooden housing
built prior to the early 70's it's possible that you may have lead
contaminated soils (the older the housing the more likely that soils
have been contaminated).
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* Download the entire Handbook (PDF)
(149 pp, 5.3 MB)
| Table of Contents of the Lead-Safe Yard |
| Chapter 1 |
Introduction (PDF) (7 pp, 225 K) |
| Chapter 2 |
How
to use this handbook (PDF) (2 pp, 67 K) |
| Chapter 3 |
Lead
In Soil: Why Is It a Problem? (PDF) (18 pp, 447 K) |
| Chapter 4 |
Beginning
the Program (PDF) (6 pp, 199 K) |
| Chapter 5 |
Communicating
About Lead in Soil and Your Lead-Safe Yard Program (PDF) (32 pp, 1 MB) |
| Chapter 6 |
Collecting
and Managing Data on Lead in Soil (PDF) (16 pp, 1.1 MB) |
| Chapter 7 |
Yard
Treatments (PDF) (28 pp, 1.7 MB) |
| Chapter 8 |
Yard
Maintenance (PDF) (12 pp, 283 K) |
| Chapter 9 |
Evaluating
Your Lead-Safe Yard Program (PDF) (4 pp, 98 K) |
| Chapter 10 |
Non-Residential
Applications of Lead-Safe Yard Mitigation Strategies (PDF) (1 pg, 25 K) |
| Appendix A |
Safer
Soil Pilot Program of Cambridge, Massachusetts (3 pp, 48 K) |
| Appendix B |
Some
Proposed Models for Less-Resource-Intensive
Approaches to Implementing Lead-Safe Yard Programs (PDF) (1 pg, 25 K) |
| Appendix C |
Future
Options—Using Plants To Treat Lead-Contaminated Soils (PDF) (3 pp, 239 K) |
| Appendix D |
Quality Assurance Project
Plan for: A Community Based Environmental Lead Assessment
and Remediation Program
(14 pp, 290 K) |
