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"There's a large community of immigrants with limited English skills," [Alberto Pina] said. "People who work two jobs. There's not much information in their hands. They're not exposed to what's going on in their own community."
Dorchester, Roxbury, Jamaica Plain and Mattapan have high concentrations of lead service lines piping water to residences. Those lead lines are widely thought to be a prime culprit in the elevated lead levels that are prevalent in inner city neighborhoods like the Bowdoin St. area of Dorchester.Even without the use of lead service pipes, lead can still enter a building's drinking water through lead solder in copper pipes and brass fixtures, which leech lead into drinking water when they come into contact with chlorine and fluoride, chemicals which are added into the city's water supply.See the full content of this document
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Council Probes Lead in City's Water Supply
In the battle against lead poisoning, Census Tract 917 is ground zero.
There, in the Bowdoin St. area of Dorchester, Alberto Pina, an outreach worker for the Bow...See the full content of this document
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