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Get a grip everyone. We live in an eighty year old house, filled with lead paint painted surfaces. I've removed lots of that paint myself over the years. Fifteen years ago the water lateral to our house broke (the line that brings the water from the village main to our house). It was, a one and a half inch lead pipe, through which all water to our house had be traveling for over 60 years. Yes, that means drinking water.
Our two children lived their entire pre-college lives in this house, while I was working on it, and drinking that foul water. One is in graduate school, and the other is pre-med. Amazing, no apparent ill effects. Just like all their friends in similar housing in our village. I'm not advocating lead by the teaspoonful, but please worry about the real dangers, cigarettes, obesity. Doesn't anyone remember the supposed danger from all those cell phone towers that were sprouting everywhere a few years ago?
