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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).

* Download the entire Handbook This is a PDF document.
Estimated download time: 13min. (PDF file size 5.24M @ 56K.)

Table of Contents of the Lead-Safe Yard
Chapter 1 Introduction This is a PDF document.
Estimated download time: 24 sec. (PDF file size 224K @ 56K.)
Chapter 2 How to use this handbook This is a PDF document.
Estimated download time: 10 sec. (PDF file size 66K @ 56K.)
Chapter 3 Lead In Soil: Why Is It a Problem? This is a PDF document.
Estimated download time: 53 sec. (PDF file size 370K @ 56K.)
Chapter 4 Beginning the Program This is a PDF document.
Estimated download time: 24 sec. (PDF file size 167K @ 56K.)
Chapter 5 Communicating About Lead in Soil and Your Lead-Safe Yard Program This is a PDF document.
Estimated download time: 2 min 17 sec. (PDF file size 947K @ 56K.)
Chapter 6 Collecting and Managing Data on Lead in Soil This is a PDF document.
Estimated download time: 2 min 41 sec. (PDF file size 1.09M @ 56K.)
Chapter 7 Yard Treatments This is a PDF document.
Estimated download time: 3 min 52 sec. (PDF file size 1.57M @ 56K.)
Chapter 8 Yard Maintenance This is a PDF document.
Estimated download time: 35 sec. (PDF file size 243K @ 56K.)
Chapter 9 Evaluating Your Lead-Safe Yard Program This is a PDF document.
Estimated download time: 11 sec. (PDF file size 79K @ 56K.)
Chapter 10 Non-Residential Applications of Lead-Safe Yard Mitigation Strategies This is a PDF document.
Estimated download time: <10 sec. (PDF file size 19K @ 56K.)
Appendix A Safer Soil Pilot Program of Cambridge, Massachusetts This is a PDF document. Estimated download time: <10 sec. (PDF file size 31K @ 56K.)
Appendix B Some Proposed Models for Less-Resource-Intensive
Approaches to Implementing Lead-Safe Yard Programs This is a PDF document.
Estimated download time: < 10sec. (PDF file size 19K @ 56K.)
Appendix C Future Options—Using Plants To Treat Lead-Contaminated Soils This is a PDF document.
Estimated download time: 36 sec. (PDF file size 250K @ 56K.)
Appendix D Quality Assurance Project Plan for: A Community Based Environmental Lead Assessment and Remediation Program This is a PDF document.
Estimated download time: 36 sec. (PDF file size 254K @ 56K.)

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