After an outcry from residents, state inspectors visited Baltimore’s TV Hill this morning, where they collected paint chips from the area and confirmed the neighborhood’s worst fear – the chips contain lead.
The inspectors “performed testing on the chips using a field device, which detected the presence of lead in the paint,” according to Mark Shaffer, communications director for the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE).
The samples were taken from the area surrounding the city’s large broadcast towers, one of which – the so-called candelabra tower owned jointly WJZ‐TV, WBAL‐TV and WMAR‐TV – has been undergoing power washing ahead of repainting.
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