EPA fines CdA contractor for lead dust

A Coeur d’Alene contractor was fined $9,800 for not following proper procedures to control lead dust during while painting a 95-year-old house.

David Rucker, owner of DLR Properties LLC, signed a consent decree with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he neither admitted nor denied guilt.

The problems occurred in 2015, when Rucker’s company was working on a 1912-era house at 408 Reid St. in Coeur d’Alene, according to an EPA complaint.

While the house was being prepped for exterior painting, employees didn’t take precautions to ensure that lead dust and paint chips didn’t spread to other buildings or the adjacent properties, the complaint said/ Becky Kramer , SR. More here .