Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 15, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15071531
Keywords
lead poisoning; citizen-science; exposome; urban metals
Funding
- Charles Bantz Fellowship
- Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
- National Institutes of Health
- National Science Foundation
- National Institutes of Health, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Clinical and Translational Sciences Award [UL1TR002529]
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES [UL1TR002529] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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An ambitious citizen science effort in the city of Indianapolis (IN, USA) led to the collection and analysis of a large number of samples at the property scale, facilitating the analysis of differences in soil metal concentrations as a function of property location (i.e., dripline, yard, and street) and location within the city. This effort indicated that dripline soils had substantially higher values of lead and zinc than other soil locations on a given property, and this pattern was heightened in properties nearer the urban core. Soil lead values typically exceeded the levels deemed safe for children's play areas in the United States (<400 ppm), and almost always exceeded safe gardening guidelines (<200 ppm). As a whole, this study identified locations within properties and cities that exhibited the highest exposure risk to children, and also exhibited the power of citizen science to produce data at a spatial scale (i.e., within a property boundary), which is usually impossible to feasibly collect in a typical research study.
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