How much will it cost to throw away all your lead?

[gijimbo]

I'll spoon feed you on this one! Those are ALL ingestion topics, not absorb-
tion through the skin. Nor are they inhalation. The lead based paint thing is
COMMON sense, children put things in their mouth. Lead in your plumbing is
chealeted by the chemicals in the water to make it safe to drink (chlorine)
Gasoline lead was vaporized and came in contact (like dust) with everything
the ingestion route again. Since its discontinuence it not a contaminant of
water/food sources. And as for water QUALITY, I did a post already, do your
homework. Lead has been used for thousands of years and it's not showing
up the WATER tests, if half of what you thought were true, we'd all be dead.
Lead is most toxic when it's accelerated to 1,100 to 2,200fps. Lead is the
least of your worries after reading your conclusions.

Once again I'll entertain another who thinks just because we have always done things that way we need to continue. I read you post about "Water Quality," generic as it was it provided very little insight.

The reservoir I fish at does not use distilled water. Therefore the chelating effect is very possible in the water I fish and swim. Do you know the exact chemical compounds that are made up when farm run-off and lead mix? Rain tainted with industrial pollution and lead? I don't.

What micro-organisms eat the chelated lead bacteria? What fish eat the micro-organisms? What eats the fish? See the pattern...it's called (big phrase coming up) the food chain. And YES, it is about ingestion and all other forms lead can enter our beings.

Do we need to wait for it to become an epidemic lead problem before we enact a solution? This is a fine chance for America as a whole to get ahead of the curve rather then spending trillions fixing it. You do have a point in the fact that lead in the small forms we ingest it may never cause one ounce of harm to anyone of us. That is at the current levels of ingestion and exposure. Will these levels remain the same or decrease over the next generations...Nope not without regulation. The industry had it's chance to fix the problem and choose not too. Therefore regulation is necessary.

I like many others will pay the increased prices for lead alternative tackle. It will benefit future generations to come.

Jim

PS. Go ahead and wipe your chin, I am done feeding you.

[crappiedoc]

3000+ years of lead use and we all glow in the dark. Nothings "safe", but
when it comes down to it, is lead really the problem? You have to mix it in
with other things. Is fishing tackle the problem, I don't think so. The water
quality issue, did you follow up. Send me to a USGS or COE water data that
show lead and I'll jump ship because I couldn't find one.