The city is poised to start peeling lingering lead paint off old walls — after alders voted to allow data sharing to proactively track and eliminate the endangerment to childhood health.
The Board of Alders cast that unanimous vote during their latest meeting in City Hall Monday night to authorize a five- year contract between the city and the Housing Authority of New Haven that will allow the exchange of otherwise confidential data related to blood lead levels of children under six between those parties.
“Lead poisoning continues to be a significant public health concern,” Fair Haven Alder Sarah Miller said, particularly in homes built before 1978, the year the federal government banned the residential use of lead paint.
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The underlying aim is to permit the city’s housing authority and health department to construct a comprehensive database of addresses where children with high lead levels have previously lived in order to facilitate swift identification of households with children that could still be at risk.