Feds Looking at Old Atlanta Smelter Site

ATLANTA (AP) -- Federal officials say they're examining an Atlanta site where a lead smelter operated for decades to see if the area poses any environmental dangers.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the Environmental Protection Agency has concerns about the northeast Atlanta site, where furnaces processed thousands of tons of lead each year beginning in 1934.

The smelter property is now home to a concrete plant. It's a few blocks away from some houses in the Morningside neighborhood, and several schools and day care centers are within a three-mile radius.

The plant stopped production in 2003.

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