SCIENCE RESEARCH TEAM "DEAD WEIGHT" LEAD WHEEL WEIGHT PARTNERS.

"If the public becomes more aware of the environmental dangers of
lead wheel weights and is given alternative wheel balancing choices then
there will be a decrease in lead entering the environment." TEAM DEAD WEIGHT

Partners 

Dr. Robert Root, author of "Lead Loading of Urban Streets by Motor 
Vehicle Wheel Weights"
-Did studies on how many lead wheel weights were falling off of cars 
and going into the environment. 

Dr. Michael Wichman, University of Iowa Hygenics Lab
-Did testing for us involving testing for lead compounds with 
different solutions 

Jeff Gearhart
-Said “Lead wheel weights are one of the last major unregulated 
sources of lead entering the environment” 

Rep. Jeff Kauffman and Rep. Nate Willems
-Helped us introduce legislation about lead wheel weights


Science research team "Dead Weight" recognizes the need to 
protect the public from exposure to lead hazards. There are no federal
regulatory controls governing use of lead wheel weights. Environmental
health hazards associated with lead wheel weights are a preventable 
problem. People are exposed to lead fragments and dust when lead wheel
weights fall from motor vehicles onto the nation's roadways and are 
then abraded and pulverized by traffic. Lead wheel weights on and 
alongside roadways can contribute to soil, surface and groundwater 
contamination and pose hazards to downstream aquatic life.
       Lead negatively affects every bodily system. While it is 
injurious to people of all ages, lead is especially harmful to fetuses,
children, and adults of childbearing age. Effects of lead on a child's
cognitive, behavioral, and developmental abilities may necessitate
large expenditures of public funds for health care and special
education. Irreversible damage to children and subsequent expenditures
could be avoided if exposure to lead is reduced.

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