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...large parking lot behind Quincy House on DeWolfe St., where developer H.J. Davis plans to build condominiums, has residues of lead, arsenic and petroleum under the blacktop, and St. Paul's Parish, which agreed to sell Davis the land, must pay to clean...
Engineers testing the St. Paul's parking lot found small amounts of chemicals including lead, arsenic and petroleum, said Powers...
...engineers working for St. Paul's thought the wastes could have come from the residential neighborhood that stood on the land during the 1950s, she said. The lead traces could have come from paint on the houses, and the arsenic from rat poisons used more than 30 years ago. As far as church officials know, no factories ever existed on the land, she said...
...Arsenic can cause a rash if it touches theskin, and after long-term ingestion, can causecancer, said DEQE spokesman Katie Stimmel.Exposure to high levels of lead can cause braindamage in children, she said. She added that moreprecise information about the risks at the sitewould take more time and testing...
...Pacific coastal waters are generally cleaner than most, but they also contain pockets of dead -- and deadly -- water. Seattle's Elliott Bay is contaminated with a mix of copper, lead, arsenic, zinc, cadmium and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), chemicals once widely used by the ( electrical-equipment industry. "The bottom of this bay is a chart of industrial history," says Thomas Hubbard, a water-quality planner for Seattle. "If you took a core sample, you could date the Depression, World War II. You could see when PCBs were first used and when they were banned and when lead was eliminated from gasoline...