Work teams using heavy equipment began digging up soil contaminated with lead from an empty lot in west Atlanta on Monday morning. It’s the start of an Environmental Protection Agency cleanup action that will take months to complete.
Targeting a neighborhood near Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the EPA has found unsafe levels of lead — a powerful neurotoxin — in the soil of more than half of the 124 yards already examined.
And now the EPA says that it’s considering expanding its investigation beyond the 368 properties currently under scrutiny.
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