Mayor Justin Bibb signs executive order requiring anyone who owns or rents a home built before 1978 get additional testing.
CLEVELAND — The numbers are staggering and sobering. Some 1,500 kids in the city of Cleveland are still testing positive for lead poisoning each year.
Cases were decreasing since 2005, but have stagnated for the last five years.
Now the city will focus its lead poisoning prevention resources on risk assessment, abatement and expedited removal of lead hazards in order to protect Cleveland’s children from lead poisoning.
At the mayor’s direction, the Cleveland Department of Public Health is working with City Council and the Lead Safe Coalition to pursue a data driven approach to the long-term challenge of lead poisoning.
This includes revising the existing lead safe ordinance to eliminate uncertainty as to whether lead hazards are present and to provide clear direction on how to address them through risk assessment and public disclosure of those hazards to both the …