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Media Release – 2025 Children’s Blood Lead Levels Remain Similar to Recent Years with Participation Rates Rising

December 5, 2025 Trail, BC – The 2025 blood lead testing clinic results for children aged six months to 36 months in Trail and Rivervale show an average blood lead level of 2.3 micrograms per decilitre, similar to recent years. Year to year variability in blood lead levels is influenced by lead levels in community

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Fall 2025 Newsletter

See dates for Children’s Lead Testing Clinics in Trail. Meet Sara Ridge, a THEC community member. Learn about how to manage lead dust after shooting firearms and how one family dealt with lead dust from peeling paint on their property. Hear about our local and international knowledge sharing, exchange and learning. Try out some fun

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Media Release – Global Conversation on Reducing Lead Exposure Comes to Trail, May 2025

What do communities living near operating lead smelters have in common—and what can they learn from one another? These questions have brought together professionals from Trail, B.C., Port Pirie, Australia, and Hoboken, Belgium in an international Community of Practice (CoP) focused on reducing lead exposure and improving public health.

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Knowledge Sharing & Learning Trail Group Onboarding Tour for New Members

Co-hosted by the City of Trail and Teck Trail Operations, the purpose of this onboarding tour was to support new members to participate effectively in future Knowledge Sharing & Learning Trail Group meetings by understanding the people, organizations and portfolio of work (regulated and non-regulated) taking place in Trail to support human health and well-being in a community influenced by smelter air emissions.

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 SO2 permit amendment public notification background presentation to THEC (November 28, 2024).

This presentation describes Teck’s application for an amendment to the Trail Operations Air Permits. This is in the pre-application phase to ENV and there is a requirement for a public notification process. At the November 28th, 2024, THEC meeting, Teck Trail Operations provided background on the permit amendment application to the group. 

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