Neighborhoods with more lead paint were also disproportionately affected.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.New Yorkers in predominantly Hispanic or Latino neighborhoods are more likely to have lead pipes carrying water to their homes, according to new research out of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health., published Aug. 30 in the journal "Environmental Health Perspectives," also found the lead lines are more common in areas with other types of lead risk, like from paint.
The researchers also wanted to see if lead pipes co-occurred with other types of lead exposure, like paint or paint dust containing the heavy metal. So they created a “child lead exposure vulnerability index” — a number representing a whole cluster of risk factors, like poverty and dilapidated homes.collected by the city’s health department shows that the vast majority of kids with elevated levels of lead in their blood live in low-income neighborhoods.
“This study confirmed a lot of what we thought about lead pipes,” said Robert Hayes, director of the Albany-based nonprofit Environmental Advocates New York. “They are an environmental injustice.” Data from poor neighborhoods may be especially inaccurate, Nigra said, because some of the information comes from observations by highly qualified technicians.
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