Attention wives that live in Mcas New River!

[Ginia23]

I was told there was lead paint in my house by my area housing office cause I asked about it. I called the epa on base and the amcc housing manager they told me according to there 96 reports there was no lead. So I went to the home depot and baught a lead sample test kit and found lead on the blinds in my daughters room shes 3! and my dining room blinds and it was speckled like lead dust! I'm also pregnant. head my warning we are not suppose to have lead in our homes with kids under 6 and pregnant women!

[MissCrystal707]

That's awful. I don't like using blinds because the dust can become contaminated with lead. We have them now, but it's temp. You can't always trust what people tell you with food or anything!

[Jarhead1991]

just found this - I retired from MCAS New River in May 1999. Prior to me retiring, it was either the base paper or the Jacksonville paper that had a very samll article about lead being in the blinds on MCAS New River.

I have been trying to find article. My daughter was a heavy blind chewer. We were told that they were replacing all the blinds as they remodeled the houses in base housing. It would appear that they replaced the blinds with more blinds containing lead.

if anyone can find that article please let me know. Thanks

[starreyedcutie]

We are supposed to be moving to mcas new river we emailed the lady in charge of housing and asked about lead in the houses and she said she hadn't heard anything about it? Any more news on this?

[mamagrizzly08]

the houses on the enlisted side have all been remodeled as of the end of 09 beginning of 2010, we moved into our house November of 2009 and watched all the houses around us get remodled, we haven't had any problems. all the old officer ones have been torn down and new ones have been build up by the front gate. in houses as old as thees are (built in about the 60's-70's) there is always issues with lead, mold, asbestos(sp?) but i saw the hazmat teams come in to scrape all that stuff out before they remodeled.

[starreyedcutie]

I live on monteith st...is it ok over here?