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Table 5 Costs to decontaminate French houses with lead-based paint (€2008)

From: Childhood lead exposure in France: benefit estimation and partial cost-benefit analysis of lead hazard control

Type of costs

Cost1 per home

Cost2 per home

Cost3 per home

Global environmental survey

381a

381a

381a

Home dust analysis

30b

30b

30b

Home paint analysis

30b

30b

30b

ANAH's assumptions

2,600c1

5,600c2

8,200c3

Housing substitutes

521d

521d

521d

Overall interventions

3,562

6,562

9,162

Total costs (€million)

133.1

245.3

342.5

  1. a = Argeron, 1995, actualized in 2008 by INVS [3]. b = LERES, 2009[54]. c = The National Agency of the housing environment (ANAH)[53], 2010., d = Mc Laine and colleagues.,2006, €2008[55].
  2. Table 5 presents lead-based paint decontamination costs per home. We used French data for global environmental survey (€381) and for home dust and home paint analysis (€30, each one). We used also the assumptions of ANAH works for estimating the removal of lead-based paint cost per home eliminating lead. These assumptions were the following ones: Assumption 1: a 20% max rate was applied to €13,000 standard works for rehabilitating old houses <1949, irrespective any lead-based paint intervention. Assumption 2: a 70% max rate was applied to €8,000 works of specific lead decontamination Assumption 3: Assumptions 1 & 2 combined, i.e. the max mix of two works.
  3. The housing substitutes, € 521, were US data based on Mc Laine analysis. Based on these data and assumptions, we calculated three overall interventions ranged from €3,562 to €9,162 and three total lead-based paint decontamination costs ranged from €133.1 to €342 million, which were performed on the 37,382 houses concerned, in one shot for one year.