From 1974: The Bunker Hill Co. was purchasing the homes of 15 families and moving them away from its lead-zinc smelter near Kellogg, Idaho.
All of the families involved âwere shown to have one or more children with lead levels at or overâ the statistical threshold of lead poisoning.
Most were in the Deadwood Gulch and Silver King residential areas.
âThe decision to ask the families to move â at the companyâs expense â was made not only because of blood lead levels, but also because of social and psychological factors,â according to a physician who was coordinator of the North Idaho lead study.
More families may also be asked to move.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/dec/06/this-day-in-history-bunker-hill-mining-was-moving-/
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