NAACP officials continue probe into sludge study

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The NAACP still has questions about how a study was conducted in which treated human waste was tilled into poor, black families? yards to reduce high lead levels in Baltimore City.

“From a layman?s point of view, there are enough questions and enough answers we?re not getting to substantiate us staying in this area,” Marvin “Doc” Cheatham, president of the Baltimore City chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said at an NAACP meeting this weekend.

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