doi: 10.1289/ehp.114-a470.
The apple bites back: claiming old orchards for residential development
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- DOI: 10.1289/ehp.114-a470
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The apple bites back: claiming old orchards for residential development
Ernie Hood. Environ Health Perspect.2006 Aug.
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Spraying of arsenical pesticides on apple orchards was routine from thelate 1800s through the 1940s. Lead arsenate was not banned, however, until 1988.
Land that was once home to fruit orchards is now being turned into subdivisions, raisingquestions about pesticides that may still be presentin the soil and the potential risks they pose to residents.
Some experts recommend that homeowners have their soil tested for arsenicand lead, although no perfect method exists for remediating soil thatis found to still be contaminated.
A bulldozer scrapes a layer of contaminated soil from a yard in the BarberOrchard subdivision in North Carolina, once the site of a large appleorchard. Due to contamination with former agricultural chemicals, thesubdivision was designated a Superfund site in 2001. EPA-supervisedcleanup, mainly by removing soil, is on hold pending further funding.
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