AG Lynch & Children’s Health Forum say statewide lead safety program on target to remediate 600 low-income units by 2012

Attorney General Patrick Lynch, St. Joseph's CEO John Fogarty, and The Honorable Kurt L. Schmoke

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Saying that the remediation phase of the statewide lead safety program under the auspices of the Healthy Kids Collaborative (HKC) is firmly in place, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch was joined by community leaders vested in the fight to alleviate childhood lead poisoning to provide a progress report on the program.

Lynch and the community leaders gathered at a home currently undergoing lead remediation, located at 3 Fern Street in Providence’s Smith Hill neighborhood, an area of the city where seven out of ten housing units were built more than 40 years ago. The Fern Street property is a single-family home owned by a single parent with four young children.......

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