- Updated: Nov. 30, 2024, 7:28 a.m.
Oregon State University professor Alyssa Shiel (left), and Ashley Sutton, a grad student at OSU, look up at old lead-sheathed telecom cables hanging overhead in inner Southeast Portland on October 29, 2024. Shiel has found the cables are releasing lead into soil, leading to elevated lead levels in some Portland neighborhoods, and she's now testing the soil to find out just how much of the toxic metal is present and how much of a risk it poses to people.Dave Killen / The Oregonian
On a cloudy day in late October, Alyssa Shiel crouched on a narrow strip of grass between the curb and the sidewalk of a neighborhood in inner Southeast Portland, plunging a small syringe-like probe into the soil.
Shiel, an Oregon State University professor, and graduate student Ashley Sutton collected samples from this strip and others in the area, targeting the ground around old telecommunications cables hanging between utility poles.
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