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<br>LOUIS, Mich. - Jim Hall was mowing the city's baseball diamond when he felt a little bump beneath him. Just last week, he found one other one. Hall, who has lived in this mid-Michigan city of 7,000 for 50 years. After residents complained for years about useless birds of their yards, 22 American robins, six European starlings and one bluebird had been collected for [Alpha Brain Wellness Gummies](http://polyinform.com.ua/user/ChristiMobsby2/) testing. The outcomes, revealed last week: The neighborhood's songbirds are being poisoned by DDT, a pesticide that was banned within the United States more than 40 years ago. Lethal concentrations have been discovered in the birds' brains, as well as within the worms they eat. Matt Zwiernik, a Michigan State University assistant professor of environmental toxicology who led the testing. The birds' brains contained concentrations of DDE, a breakdown product of DDT, from 155 to 1,043 parts per million, with a median of 552. "Thirty in the mind is the threshold for acute death," Zwiernik mentioned.<br>
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<br>EPA officials didn't respond to repeated requests for comment on the poisoned birds and the Superfund cleanup. Of most concern is the 54-acre site that once contained Velsicol's foremost plant, which backs up to the neighborhood the place residents have found dead birds on their lawns. Ed Lorenz, a professor at close by Alma College and vice chair of the Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force, which represents the group. Hall is the chair of the task force. While there's an extended-term well being examine for residents who had been exposed to PBBs, no one is monitoring their exposure to DDT or looking for doable human health effects. Elsewhere, traces of the pesticide have been linked in some human research to reproductive problems, including decreased fertility and altered sperm counts. St. Louis City Manager Robert McConkie. The town's median family revenue is 43 p.c decrease than the state's. About 22 percent of its households live under the poverty line. The birds apparently have been poisoned by consuming worms living in contaminated soil close to the outdated chemical plant.<br>
<br>No research have been conducted to see whether the DDT has contaminated any vegetables or fruits grown in yards. Jane Keon, secretary of the duty power, stated the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality ignored their complaints about lifeless birds for years. But Dan Rockafellow, the state agency's venture supervisor for the location, said it took time to gather sufficient chook samples to check. State officials did not start testing folks's yards until 2006, when they discovered several yards extremely contaminated with DDT and PBBs. EPA contractors now are cleansing up 59 yards. Next year the agency plans on including another 37 yards outdoors of the 9-block area. A lot of the contamination is in the top six inches of the soil, most likely from the chemicals drifting over from the plant, Rockafellow said. However, some yards have DDT and PBBs deeper in the soil, which may very well be as a result of Velsicol's supply of free fill dirt to their neighbors many years ago.<br>
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