Cleaning Toxic Kansas City

An east side & metro urban effort that, of course, will start by pushing more taxes, fees and levies on property owners. 

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Throughout the Kansas City area, people living in older neighborhoods, often in the urban core, are waking up to the same reality. Toxins that once infused everyday life, like lead in paint and asbestos in building materials, remain in the soil, leading to health risks still lurking decades later.

“It’s a 50-year-old problem that’s essentially been kicked down the road,” said Kansas City Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley, who has been leading a push to test and treat vacant lots in some of Kansas City’s neighborhoods. “I don’t think anybody really wants to talk about it.… Once you start digging into it you realize how massive a problem it is.”

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'The dirt is contaminated.' Across Kansas City's urban neighborhoods lead lurks in the soil

On both sides of the state line, city leaders are working to clean up lead contamination of vacant lots for public health and economic development.