Lead strays
NZPA Sydney Pollution from Melbourne traffic has been found in remote south-west Tasmania after being airborne for more than 500 km.
Two scientists monitoring air samples at Cape Grim, chosen for its remoteness from air pollution, say in a paper in the journal “Search,” that when wind comes from the north the amount of lead in the Cape Grim air was 100 times higher than normal. Tests showed it came from vehicle exhausts.
They were producing the findings in support of the case for the abolition of lead in petrol, which they said was responsible for 80 per cent of the lead found in the bodies of urban children, and 90 per cent of that found in dust and soil.
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Press, 21 January 1984, Page 21
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