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The Martha s Vineyard Times We’d like to remind you lead is highly poisonous. There’s no such thing as a safe exposure level to it. For kids, lead is particularly harmful, stunting the brain in ways often difficult to initially detect. It doesn’t take much to deal out such damage. With that in mind, we are at best puzzled by the behavior of members of the Oak Bluffs board of health and the town’s health agent in a Feb. 23 meeting. During their discussion about East Chop Light, folks at the meeting understood lead paint contaminates the grounds there. By grounds, we mean at least the 60-foot by 60-foot federal plot of land the lighthouse sits on. Two Coast Guard studies have found lead in the soil there. A third study was recently completed. Results are expected next month. Did we happen to mention lead doesn’t biodegrade? Lead can remain in the soil indefinitely. This makes it likely the lead found in the lighthouse soils in 2003 and 2007 will be detected aga

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