The Lead Education Station, hosted by the Tennessee Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program!  Here, you will find valuable resources that help you understand the fundamentals of lead poisoning. Your voyage to information can be 100 percent digital, examining webpages through the entry categories above, or you can take advantage of the dedicated device at the physical location of the Lead Education Station:  the Chattanooga Public Library, South Branch, located at 925 West 39th Street.  Enormous thanks to the library for their partnership and support.

You may know that lead poisoning is a particularly crucial issue in Chattanooga, especially in the city’s southern quadrant.  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has classified Southside Chattanooga as a Superfund site, enabling them to test properties’ soil for lead and other toxic content and perform cleanup, when necessary.  

Lead and other contaminants are the leftovers of Chattanooga’s industrial past, waste products from sand foundries and other bygone industries.
Our “Local Resources” button includes a link to the EPA’s site, where you can learn more.

You need not be a Chattanoogan, however, to be concerned about lead.  Across the United States, and in all 95 of Tennessee’s counties, lead continues to be a problem.  In fact, lead is the number #1 environmental threat to the health of America’s children.  For decades upon decades, paint, gasoline, and other products in daily use were fortified by lead.  As those products aged, their lead content became airborne, landing on surfaces as nearly invisible dust.  When people, particularly children, unknowingly inhale that dust, they may become lead poisoned.

We urge Chattanoogans and all Tennesseeans to make use of the Lead Education Station to learn about the sources of, and health problems associated with, lead and to focus on lead poisoning prevention. 

Leading federal agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Environmental Protection Agency, provide detailed and extensive information on the topic of lead poisoning, all available free, and all easily accessed through our portals.