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An incident that caused lead paint chips to rain down from a 1,000-foot broadcast tower onto homes, parks and daycare facilities in Baltimore has led to a $2.2 million settlement against a paint-removal contractor and the company that hired it.
The agreement stems from a civil lawsuit filed by Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown’s office, alleging that Television Tower Inc. (TTI) knew its tower contained lead-based paint before the repainting project began.
From May 28 to June 21, 2022, Skyline Tower Painting performed scraping and power washing along the exterior of the tower, officials say. Because no controls were in place to contain the paint chips, they fell onto the surrounding neighborhoods as far as a half-mile away.
TTI is owned by a trio of Baltimore-area TV stations: WBAL, WJZ and WMAR.
The tower is situated in an area informally known as TV Hill, surrounded by a community with an environmental justice score of 88 out of 100. The score indicates a high existing pollution burden and population vulnerability, according to the Maryland Department of the Environment’s environmental justice mapping tool.
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Two paint chip samples taken from the fallout were tested and showed lead concentrations of 19.6 and 6.2 milligrams per liter, both above the hazardous material safety threshold of 5 milligrams per liter.
“We understand the impact this has had on the community, and it’s important to say clearly that this should not have happened,” said MDE Secretary Serena McIlwain. “This case underscores why strong environmental safeguards — and the careful handling of hazardous materials like lead — are so essential to protecting public health.”
In a separate criminal case, Skyline Tower and its president, Christopher Mecklum of Scottsbluff, NE, each pleaded guilty last December to violations related to the incident and were fined $50,000 apiece.
I'm really questioning the report of the concentrations here. Normally, concentration of lead in a solid like a paint chip would be in milligrams (or even micrograms) per gram, or kg. It makes no sense to consider a liter of paint chips. That looks like red lead paint on the tower at left. I'm going to guess it was red lead oxide paint, with a lot of lead sp it was probably mg/g (parts per thousand).
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My. God.
He nuked her from orbit 💀 pic.twitter.com/3LxZHvBaLh
Kentucky authorities arrested a woman accused of giving her 22-month-old child a tattoo. The suspect, identified as 27-year-old Brook McDaniel, was taken into custody last Monday by Kentucky State Police (KSP), according to the Adair County Regional Jail.
During a home visit, investigators said they discovered the family living in "deplorable" conditions and found the toddler with a black dot tattoo on his arm, along with visible redness surrounding the area, local outlet LEX 18 reported, citing a uniform citation.
Witnesses told investigators that McDaniel allegedly tattooed the child while she was tattooing herself, the outlet added.