1.   Before federal workers in spacesuits discovered arsenic, lead and a soup of other toxins in contaminated dirt under an old creosote plant.

2.   But he cited contaminated dirt found at the Alamodome site as it was being built.

3.   But the gravel increased the flow of rainwater through the contaminated dirt, thus washing radioactivity toward the Columbia River even faster, experts say.

4.   Later, state officials say they will order the contaminated dirt scraped up and dumped into the disposal pond.

5.   Studies show that lead from chipped paint or contaminated dirt can lower IQ scores in small children and cause reading and behavior problems.

6.   You do NOT get inhalation anthrax from kicking up contaminated dirt, even heavily contaminated dirt.

7.   The state Environmental Protection Division is investigating and truckloads of contaminated dirt now have to be hauled away by a special disposal company.