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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You absolutely need to be concerned about what has spilled and seeped into the ground (and not only contact through play, but also tracking into the house). I'd be very concerned about the soil being contaminated. Between oil, lead, and god knows what else, you could be buying a hazardous waste site.

Have you gotten the soil tested? And what about lead testing for the house? Lead poisoning is absolutely no joke and has lifelong consequences for children.[/quote]

I think you're over reacting, pp.  the soil outside has nothing to do with the inside.  Also, here in the DMV pretty much all soil is "contaminated" from car exhaust and rain run off.

Seriously, teflon is detected in breast milk b/c we cook with it and even slather cars in it.  Chemicals are everywhere.[/quote]

Actually, the soil outside has everything to do with the inside because it gets tracked in. Car exhaust and stormwater runoff are in a different category than potential contamination from motor oil, lead from batteries, etc.

On your second point -- you make no sense. Just because our environment is already contaminated, we shouldn't worry about additional contamination? Ask the parents in Flint, Michigan how they feel about it.

General background levels of pollutants are worrisome, but there are steps we can take such as not cooking in Teflon pans, not buying canned foods with BPA linings, not heating food in plastic, not using plastic water bottles or baby bottles. Buying a house with potentially contaminated soil outside (and potential lead paint inside) without doing due diligence ahead of time to find out the level of contamination, if any, is a really dumb idea for a number of reasons. There's the health issue, there's the potential expense of remediation, and there's the potential for a massive drop in home value.[/quote]

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