There is a large village with significant contamination in a ten acre area just on the edge of the village. It is a wonderland as far as playgrounds go and it is also along a section of river which has been dammed so it serves as a wash area too. Unfortunately it is full of piles of dirt in excess of 30000ppm lead. Yesterday when we stopped by some men were making new mud bricks out of soil dug from this area and mixed with some of the sandy processed ore. Today I shot them with the XRF and got 14000ppm in the nrovks which are used to construct the compounds. Sort of hard to do remediation work when they are still bringing the ore into their houses.Tuesday, November 9, 2010
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There is a large village with significant contamination in a ten acre area just on the edge of the village. It is a wonderland as far as playgrounds go and it is also along a section of river which has been dammed so it serves as a wash area too. Unfortunately it is full of piles of dirt in excess of 30000ppm lead. Yesterday when we stopped by some men were making new mud bricks out of soil dug from this area and mixed with some of the sandy processed ore. Today I shot them with the XRF and got 14000ppm in the nrovks which are used to construct the compounds. Sort of hard to do remediation work when they are still bringing the ore into their houses.
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What do you say to that? How long do you think the people in the area will last? Be fore they become extinct. That’s unbelievable.
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