TEAM
Lead Exposure in Homes
Katherine Laliotis, Alex Schimmoller, Brock Grafstrom

Lead can damage nearly every system in the human body, and has harmful effects on both adults and children. It is a serious environmental public health threat to people across the United States, including those living in Central Ohio. Oftentimes, lead exposure takes place within one’s own home through ingestion of water carried through lead piping. In an effort to raise awareness of citizens’ possible exposure to lead, the City of Columbus makes publicly available a Service Line Material Inventory detailing the type of line used for each home. However, this data is oftentimes self reported, and there exist many homes not registered with the inventory. In this project, we will use the inventory and data on homes available through the Franklin County Auditor’s Website to train a model to determine a home’s probability of containing lead piping. This model could then be used to assign unregistered homes with a relative risk of containing lead pipe.
