Residents of an Indiana housing complex are scrambling to find new
homes after dangerously high levels of lead were found in the soil and
the mayor proposed demolishing the 44-year-old development.
But as the 1,100 tenants of the condemned West Calumet Housing Complex were
looking for an exit, an attorney representing some of the
soon-to-be-displaced families said federal, state and city officials in
East Chicago, Indiana, have known for years that residents were living
atop a ticking environmental time bomb.
"The tragedy is that this could have all been avoided," attorney Barry Rooth
told NBC News. He said 85 of the children he represents have been
diagnosed with unsafe lead levels. "We've had at least seven years of
lead exposure to a whole generation of children."
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